Fire Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

  Gertrude Atherton

  Opportunity, Thinking, Differences

  Gertrude Atherton (1925). “The Crystal Cup”

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• Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Grief, Loss, Men

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition

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• Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

  Dorothy Norman

  Fear, Loss, Greed

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

  Tobsha Learner

  Flames, Sparks, Facts

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• I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.

  Anne Reeve Aldrich

  Song, War, Eye

  Anne Reeve Aldrich (1893). “Nadine and Other Poems”

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• There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Christian, Revenge, Forgiving

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• Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  Pain, Giving, Arms

  Eugénie de Guérin (1866). “Letters”, p.37

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• You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

  Jennifer Stone

  Passion, Poetry, Mind

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• Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

  Vance Havner

  Preacher, Ought, Sermons

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• It is natural for the immature to harm others.
  Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.

  Shantideva

  Immature, Burning, Natural

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• A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

  James A. Belasco

  Moving, Journey, Two

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• There's not a European country the Jews haven't been thrown out of. When it happens that many times, it's not just persecution. THERE'S NO SMOKE WITHOUT FIRE.

  Mark Collett

  Country, Persecution, Jew

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• Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

  Horace

  House, Danger, Property

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• It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

  George Herbert

  Bed, Dangerous, Straws

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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