Fiery Quotes - Page 5

• Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

  Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

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• I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.

  Jim Elliot

  Jesus, Passion, Men

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• People only call me 'Fiery' because it rhymes with Fred, just like 'Typhoon' rhymes with Tyson

  Fred Trueman

  People, Typhoons, Tyson

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• Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Light, Honor

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Dragons, Mind

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.513, Cambridge University Press

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• Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Heaven, Thrones, Stories

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• Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

  Babette Deutsch

  Age, Genius, Poetry Is

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• The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time.

  Harold Norse

  Sex, Flames, Joy

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• Seven hearts the journey make.
  Seven ways the hearts will break.
  Bravest heart will carry on
  When sleep is death, and hope is gone.
  Look in the fiery jaws of fear
  And see the answer white and clear,
  Then throw away all thoughts of home,
  For only then your quest is done.

  Emily Rodda

  Sleep, Home, Heart

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• J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Stars, Heyday, Throwback

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

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• Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1916, Manonmani Publishers

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• Here we find the moat of thieves. And just as a lizard, with a quick, slick slither, Flicks across the highway from hedge to hedge, Fleeter than a flash, in the battering dog-day weather, A fiery little monster, livid, in a rage, Black as any peppercorn, came and made a dart At the guts of the others, and leaping to engage One of the pair, it pierced him at the part Through which we first draw food; then loosed its grip And fell before him, outstretched and apart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dog, Weather, Justice

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• On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare.

  Walter Scott

  Soul, Age, Glee

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “Poetical Works ... With a biographical and critical memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave. (The Globe edition.).”, p.138

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• A fiery soul, which working out its way,
  Fretted the pygmy-body to decay:
  And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
  A daring pilot in extremity;
  Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high
  He sought the storms...

  John Dryden

  Work Out, Soul, Storm

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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• I used to hold a fiery wind
  and I tried to determine the direction
  where poetry would fly.

  Alda Merini

  Wind, Used, Determine

  Alda Merini (2016). “Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Merini”, p.99, Princeton University Press

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• Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Philosophical, Eye

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• The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

  Bruno Bauer

  Religious, Sweet, Sight

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• Apocalypse does not point to a fiery Armageddon but to the fact that our ignorance and our complacency are coming to an end.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Doe, Complacency

  "Thou Art that: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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• Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Teacher, Light, Lovers

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• Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Smell, Hot

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1911). “The Fitz-Boodle papers, and other sketches”

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• The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dark, Flames, Age

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 149), 1895.

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• In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Believe, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.119

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• From Lehi's vision we learn that we must take hold of this safety railing-this iron rod, found alongside our individual straight and narrow path-and hold tight until we reach our ultimate goal of eternal life with our Heavenly Father. Nephi promises that those who hold fast to the iron rod"would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction"

  Ann M. Dibb

  Father, Iron, Safety

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• Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Hands, Iron

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• Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Loyalty, Order, Mad

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