Fire Quotes
4545 quotes by 2647 authors
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected…
— William Blake
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
— John Foster
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
— Lester R. Brown
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in…
— Gerald Durrell
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility…
— Unknown Author
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When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of…
— Stephen Covey
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
— James F. Cooper
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not…
— Samuel Johnson
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As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
— Mark Twain
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After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life…
— Jane Smiley
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We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people,…
— Ronald Reagan
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Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to…
— James Madison
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Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the…
— Ronald Reagan
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Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
— Henry Ford
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You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell. What…
— Charles Dickens
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the…
— Max Lerner
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its…
— Primo Levi
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