Like Fire Quotes

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it… — Francis Bacon
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward… — Joshua Chamberlain
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. — Maya Angelou
When campaigning, be swift as the wind; in leisurely march, majestic as the forest; in raiding and plundering, like fire; in standing, firm as the… — Sun Tzu
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly. — George Eliot
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they… — Lewis H. Lapham
In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to… — Martinus Beijerinck
It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip… — Corey Taylor
Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If… — Anthony Mary Claret
The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. — James F. Cooper
Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. — Livy
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did… — Cory Monteith
When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know… — Richard Pryor
There is an ancient Indian saying that something lives only as long as the last person who remembers it. My people have come to trust… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Boxing is a sport of self-control. You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for… — Cus D'Amato
Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat… — Mike Tyson
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
Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no… — Jerry Seinfeld
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled… — Socrates

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