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• I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

  Roman Reigns

  Opportunity, Way, Born

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.

  Rick Warren

  Goal, Motivated, Whole

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.

  James Elkins

  Music, Rainbow, Gold

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• In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

  Victoria Finlay

  Unique, Blue, Seductive

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Around the Wicket Gate”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  May, Quench, Feels

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• Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

  Paul L. Maier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “The Flames of Rome”, p.298, Kregel Publications

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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Waiting

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked
  of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open
  to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject
  to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of
  talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes
  into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Powerful, Creativity, Technology

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• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Soul, Sun

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Doe, Hell

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part I, Question 10, Article 3, Ad. 2), 1485.

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• A burnt dog dreads the fire.

  Willa Cather

  Dog, Dread

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.3994, Smashbooks

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• God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Earthquakes, Voice, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.34

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• See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.165

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• Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

  Arjun Rampal

  Father, Small Business, Born

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• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Tom Hooper

  Land, Enemy, Grandfather

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• A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope.

  George Washington

  Marriage, Beautiful, Moving

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians. Our tribe is the one God chose and so if we vanquish the other tribes and rain fire and destruction on them, we're only carrying out God's Will.

  Garrison Keillor

  Rain, Religion, Fundamentals

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• Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Tunnels, Blood

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• As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Brave, Mind

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

  Ani DiFranco

  Schedules, Ends

  Song: Star Matter, Album: Red Letter Year, 2008

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Light, Sight, Sky

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Vanity, People

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

  Pythagoras

  Wind, Increase, Customs

  Pythagoras (2013). “The Golden Verses of Pythagoras”, Lulu Press, Inc

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