Fire Quotes
4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors
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If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in his turn leads…
— James Stalker
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To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll…
— Peter Jackson
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If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love…
— Angela of Foligno
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I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist
— Peter Julian Eymard
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If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.
— Huang E
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[His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on…
— Rumi
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Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire. As long as…
— Crowfoot
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Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Seventeen years after the Cold War, how can it be in the Unites States' national security interest for the President of Russia to have only…
— Sam Nunn
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The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third…
— John the Apostle
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To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat,…
— John the Apostle
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March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
— David McCord
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But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck…
— Greg Bear
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
— Seneca the Younger
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L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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