Fire Quotes - Page 27

• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Flames

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• the very minute we think we 'have' God, God will surprise us. As we search in fire and earthquakes, God will be in the still small voice. As we listen in silent meditation, God will be shouting protests in the street. God is warning us that we had best not try to find our security in any well-defined concept or category of what is Godly - for the minute we believe we are into God, God is off again and calling us forth into some unknown place.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

  Rachel Field

  Plenty

  Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”

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• No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.

  Rachel Field

  Hope, Cutting, Roots

  Rachel Field (1946). “And Now Tomorrow”

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• it is better to take experience, to suffer, to love, and to remember than to walk unscathed between the fires. I've had most immunities myself - the result of an independent income combined with a personality completely devoid of sexual attractions - the two fires of poverty and passion have therefore never burned me, and I am a lesser person for my safety.

  Winifred Holtby

  Passion, Independent, Two

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

  Joan of Arc

  Truth, Say Anything, Saws

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• Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

  Rolf Potts

  Order, Survival, Needs

  Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being worshiped like the false idol you are, how do you leave the stage and transition back into real life? ... What is there left to do but set yourself on fire?

  Margaret Cho

  Real, Idols, Comedian

  Margaret Cho (2007). “I'm the One That I Want”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• we wish to make rage into a fire that cooks things rather than a fire of conflagration.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Anger, Wish, Rage

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Self, People

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

  Hildegard Knef

  Actors, Revolution, Theater

  HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

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• Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Art, Struggle, Men

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• Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Objectivity, Effort

  Stanislaw Lem (1983). “Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

  Myrtle Reed

  Believe, Heaven, Advice

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• It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.

  Amy Sedaris

  Prison Time, Broken, Desire

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• Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.

  Amy Sedaris

  God, Hate, Sacrifice

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• How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.

  Clara Schumann

  Passion, Artist, Enthusiasm

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• No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

  Danny Silk

  Stewards, Fire Inside

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• They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

  Bonnie Tyler

  First Love, Flames, Firsts

  Song: First Love

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• All fires burn out at last.

  Sigrid Undset

  Lasts, Burn Out

  Sigrid Undset (1927). “The cross”

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• Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

  Ethel Waters

  Authenticity, Burned, Knows

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• Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Love Is, Idols, Sacred

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• when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

  Ethel Smyth

  Art, Hands, Perfection

  Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”

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• My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Dream, Art, Horse

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• when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

  May Sinclair

  Thinking, Genius, Sparks

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