Fiery Quotes · Page 4

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

— Avey Tare

“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.”

— Melody Lee

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“... " it's the Fiery Furnace." They just looked at me as if I said "It's a puppy driving a tractor.”

— Brodi Ashton

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

— John Milton

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

— Debra Winger

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

— Abraham Lincoln

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

— Baal Shem Tov

“To this day I still do not know why red shoes are sooo me. I think it might be that in a…

— gisela Hausmann

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand…

— Faraaz Kazi

Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a…

— William Shenstone

“The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed…

— Jim Murphy

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in…

— H. P. Blavatsky

Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No…

— Grace Jones

The White House is dismissing these fiery town halls as the result of professional protesters. Well, that's exactly how President [Barack] Obama…

— Chuck Todd

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and…

— John Ruskin

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a…

— Rick Perlstein

As for this young Ali, one cannot but like him. A noble-minded creature, as he shows himself, now and always afterwards; full…

— Edward Gibbon

There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies.…

— Laurel Burch

God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap…

— Nick Cave

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must…

— Abraham Lincoln

These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your trust in…

— Neil L. Andersen

Their fiery advance and great tenacity were well recognized by their opponents.

— Anonymous

To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away…

— Margaret Fuller

“We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.”

— Frances Mayes

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

— John Milton

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

— Ambrose Bierce

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…

— Fisher Ames

To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign…

— Alexander Hamilton

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly…

— Peter Scolari

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither…

— George Bernard Shaw

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts,…

— George Whitefield

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be…

— Jack Kemp

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery…

— Alexander Pope

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality…

— Emmanuelle Beart

I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the…

— Hildegard of Bingen