Fire Quotes - Page 28

• The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, Book, Reflection

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.104

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• The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Climate, Events

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• Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.

  John F. Kerry

  Action, Excuse, Climate Change

  "Climate change report: It's 'extremely likely' that humans are responsible" by Brandon Miller, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2013.

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• Fire on anything that moves on the river.

  Kingoro Hashimoto

  Moving, Rivers

  "Yangtze Patrol: The U.S. Navy in China". Book by Kemp Tolley, 2000.

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• Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

  Sydney Samuelson

  Book, Tears, Jeter

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Expression

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• New York's the place where you can have a private life. You can do anything, be anything you please. New Yorkers mind their own business. Police cars, ambulances, fire engines - nobody even turns around for them. We go to the movies for excitement.

  Zelda Popkin

  New York, Car, Police

  Zelda Popkin (1995). “Time Off for Murder”, p.16, Bitingduck Press LLC

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• ... God cometh sometimes unto the soul when it hath neither called, nor prayed unto, nor summoned Him. And He doth instil into the soul a fire and a love and a sweetness not customary, wherein it doth greatly delight and rejoice ... Thus doth the soul feel that God is mingled with it and hath made companionship with it.

  Angela of Foligno

  Soul, Delight, Companionship

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• If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.

  Dorothy Cotton

  Mean, Water, House

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• Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

  Joni Rodgers

  Cancer, Profound, Illness

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• The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

  Amrita Pritam

  Flames, Wife, Torches

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• Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

  Hadewijch

  Spring, Light, Names

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.352, Paulist Press

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• love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.

  Hadewijch

  Love Is, Age, Burning

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.60, Paulist Press

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• A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

  Mary Jo Bang

  Children, Grief, Men

  Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• The craving for colour is a natural necessity just as for water and fire. Colour is a raw material indispensable to life. At every era of his existence and his history, the human being has associated colour with his joys, his actions and his pleasures.

  Fernand Leger

  Water, Joy, Raw Materials

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• It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

  Maya Deren

  Flames, Break Through, Joy

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• Debt, weve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

  Andrew Ross Sorkin

  Agency, Light, Bankers

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• I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes. I may have really bad vision. I may have one leg. I may not know how to read. I may not know who the vice president is. I may technically be an alien of the state. I may have a Zune. I may not know Excel. I may be two 9-year-olds in a trench coat. I may not have full control of my bowels. I may drive a '94 Honda Civic. I may not “get” cameras. I may dye my hair with Hydrogen Peroxide. I may be afraid of trees. I may be on fire right now. But I'm a fierce queen.

  Justin Johnson

  Queens, Two, Hair

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• Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head.

  Graham Foust

  Missing, Mind, Rust

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• It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.

  Robert M

  Earthquakes, Voice, Soul

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• You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should
  look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged
  down about people's pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allaah,
  “You created me from fire and you created him from clay”.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Past, People, Clay

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Self, People, Giving

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• Let me see what I have that will 'abide the fire.'

  Susannah Spurgeon

  Let Me

  Susannah Spurgeon (1896). “A carillon of bells, to ring out the old truths of "Free grace and dying love"”

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• I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.

  Tim Heidecker

  Taken, Thinking, Ideas

  "How Herman Cain Became a Tim and Eric Character". Interview with David Weigel, www.slate.com. November 12, 2011.

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• There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.

  Jimmy Page

  Passion, Player, Thinking

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