Fire Quotes
4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors
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A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.
— George Herbert
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Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
— Henry Fielding
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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?
— Alexander Pope
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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
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True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the energy endures; if the energy endures,…
— Albert Pike
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to…
— Bertrand Russell
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I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
— Mary Oliver
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
— William Styron
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How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?
— Paul Gauguin
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I had so much fire in me and so many plans...
— Claude Monet
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The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and…
— Madame de Stael
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Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the…
— Freya Stark
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Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
— Charles Simmons
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A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the…
— Sam Keen
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No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.
— Gladys Taber
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I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put…
— Hakuin Ekaku
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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed…
— Pema Chodron
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Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of…
— William Warburton
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire…
— Ramakrishna
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When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there…
— Jeanne Moreau
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When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!
— Paul Cezanne
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A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it;…
— Paul Klee
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The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.
— Patricia K Page
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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
— Livy
Who Wrote These Fire Quotes
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