Fire Quotes - Page 9

• Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

  Aberjhani

  Names, Heaven, Might

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

  Loni Anderson

  Mom, Marijuana, Doors

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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  John Donne

  Philosophy, Doubt, Looks

  'An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary' (1611) l. 205

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• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Political

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

  Breathe, Theory, Equations

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.151, Random House

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• A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Football, Moving

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2011

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• The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.

  Michel Seuphor

  Team, Artist, Years

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• It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Real, Littles, Glory

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.604, ShandonPress

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• When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

  Edward Young

  Death, Dying, Literature

  "The Complaint, Or Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality".

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• Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Catching On, President Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Peace, Freedom

  "George Carlin: Doin' It Again", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

  Clive James

  Men, Sound, Quiet

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• I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

  Delta Burke

  Heart, Special, Red

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• Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Hands

  "Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Would Be, World, Taste

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• Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, President Snow, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

  Bobby Scott

  Volunteer, Department, Locals

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• Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

  Edmund Burke

  Play, House, Littles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 10

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• I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Race, Black, Doubt

  "Darkwater: The Givens Collection".

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• Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.

  Walter Duranty

  Hot, Mass, Exile

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Rereading, Never Quit

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• I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Women, Thinking, Differences

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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