Fire Quotes - Page 10

• I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Women, Thinking, Differences

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  There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  Washington Irving

  Encouraging, Kindness, Lying

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.39, e-artnow

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• It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Patriotic, House

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.140, Algora Publishing

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• I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Smoking, Mars

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.112, BookBaby

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Rereading, Never Quit

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• Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doors, Painting, Gallery

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• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

  Richard Steele

  Gossip, Tongue, Destruction

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• In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Blood, Stories

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

  Horace

  Wall, Business, Doors

  'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84

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• The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sunset, Sky, Eggs

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1981). “The Unspeakable Skipton”

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• God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

  Sam Storms

  Joy, Treasure, Forests

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• Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

  Stephen King

  School, People, Lines

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• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

  George Washington

  Integrity, 4th Of July, Alive

  Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour. Sparks 'Life of Washington' (1839) vol. 2, p. 109

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• My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire--a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron--which we cannot get back.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Girl, Heart, Iron

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• You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Light

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Light, Tongue, Poetry Is

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• Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Angel

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

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• Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

  John Masefield

  Travel, Stars, Rain

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Wind, Alive

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

  Tennessee Williams

  House, Looks, Way

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.107, New Directions Publishing

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• When she awoke, the world was on fire.

  Scott Westerfeld

  World

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

  Plato

  Wine, Boys, Years

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• A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Winning

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7985, Delphi Classics

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• No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

  Nicholas Evans

  Heart, Men, Brave

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