Fire Quotes

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It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided… — Christian Nestell Bovee
When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize… — Marcus Aurelius
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches… — Marcus Aurelius
Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. — Romain Gary
What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has… — Marcus Aurelius
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its… — William John Locke
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The… — Anais Nin
Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but… — John Dryden
To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’ — Warsan Shire
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of… — Ronald Reagan
The fly runs toward the fire or lamp, thinking that it is a flower, and gets burnt up. Even so, the passionate man runs towards… — Bill Vaughan
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with… — Bill Vaughan
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be… — Charles Krauthammer
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
Grover Cleveland declined to participate in character attacks on Blaine . When presented with papers which purported to be extremely damaging to Blaine, he grabbed… — Grover Cleveland
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. — Benjamin Franklin
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. — Benjamin Franklin
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. — Robert Frost
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is… — Robert Fulghum
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. — Thomas Fuller
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is… — Delphine de Girardin

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