Fire Quotes - Page 35

• Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

  George Herbert

  Kindles, Great Ones

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.331

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• Ships feare fire more then water.
  [Ships fear fire more than water.]

  George Herbert

  Water, Ships

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• The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

  George Herbert

  Children, Heard

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• By music minds an equal temper know,
  Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
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  Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
  Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Warrior, Mind

  Alexander Pope (1839). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice of the author”, p.15

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• Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Worry, Gorillas, Computer

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• I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because Im recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because Im concentrating on what the character is going through.

  E. G. Marshall

  Dog, Character, Thinking

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• There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

  Mikhail Tukhachevsky

  Doubt, Revolutionary, Continents

  "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world". Book by Robert A. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann, p. 175, 1999.

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• My rage is not malicious; like a spark
  Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint
  It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

  William Goffe

  Anger, Steel, Sparks

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• My son called to me that God was inside his red fire engine. He wanted to show me. I did move as fast as I could, spilling like water through the kitchen door into a summer day, but God had left by the time I got there. My son smiled, told me I'd missed him by seconds.

  Deborah Keenan

  Summer, Moving, Son

  Deborah Keenan (2011). “Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems”, p.85, Milkweed Editions

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• A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  Jean Hersey

  New Year, Spring, Valentine

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• Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Envy, Ambitious, Hot

  Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• [Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by setting your blood on fire, and to increase your chances of winning at any cost, your stakes increase frightfully; the desire of winning gets to be a madness. The soul gets sick; it neither sees nor hears anything. No family ties, position, nor fortune, can stand against this passion.

  Matilde Serao

  Passion, Winning, Blood

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Tree, Political, Quality

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• Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

  Chanakya

  Political, Ifs

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• What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, School, Humor

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• Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence, neither steel nor fire can eradicate the erroneous opinions of the mind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Reflection, History, Mind

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.473, Wordsworth Editions

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• Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Roots, India

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• I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

  Robin Wasserman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

  Aristophanes

  Sex, Husband, Children

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Team, Heart, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

  Jeff Rich

  Grass, Grass Is Always Greener, Greener

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• I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Making Love, Staring

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I". Life magazine, p.132, December 10, 1965.

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• My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

  David Copperfield

  Uncles, Years, House

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• Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.

  Sophocles

  Children, Grief, Heart

  Sophocles (1984). “The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus”, p.307, Penguin

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