Like Fire Quotes
102 quotes by 81 authors
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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
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
— Maya Angelou
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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
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Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
— George Eliot
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
— James F. Cooper
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
— Livy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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