Fire Quotes

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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. — Thomas Carlyle
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. — Heraclitus
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire — Heraclitus
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. — Clive James
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air… — Jackie Stewart
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. — Harry Houdini
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick… — Harry Houdini
We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors,… — Patty Murray
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be… — Stephen R. Donaldson
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with… — Akira Kurosawa
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a… — Douglas Adams
It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. — Harvey Mackay
A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended. — Evan Esar
Love is a flame to set the will on fire — John Masefield
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put… — Jodi Picoult

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