Fire Quotes - Page 33

• When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Cat, Thinking, Problem

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted,
  When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored,
  When the last fire is out and the last guest departed
  Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

  John Masefield

  Death, Prayer, Sea

  John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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• The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Tough Questions, Feet

  "Bloomberg: U.S. 'Is in Trouble'" by Josh Gerstein, www.nysun.com. June 19, 2007.

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• A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
  [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Sparks, Neglected, Raised

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• Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Children, Stupidity, Aspiration

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• I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

  Margaret Halsey

  Hot, Nerves, Embarrassment

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

  Anzia Yezierska

  Passion, Men, Light

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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