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Ignite the spark within you, emitting depth beyond light.
Author:
Firework - Katy Perry
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Embrace the fire within you, for it has the power to forge greatness.
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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Embrace the fire within you and let it propel you to new heights.
Author:
Sofia Reynolds
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Love is the fuel that keeps the fire of passion burning bright.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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The same spark that ignites the fire in others can light your path to greatness
Author:
Jasmine Grant
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Light up the darkness with the fire within you.
Author:
Samantha Stevens
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Remember, the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Author:
Ferdinand Foch
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I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
Author:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Author:
Frank Zappa
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
Author:
Edward Young
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
Author:
John Yoo
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Author:
William Yeats
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
Author:
William Yeats
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Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
Author:
J. Yeats
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Author:
Steven Wright
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
Author:
Bern Williams
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When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
Author:
Prince William
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Author:
Benjamin Whorf
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I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.
Author:
Bryan White
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I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.
Author:
Lynn Westmoreland
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Author:
Mae West
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
Author:
H. Wells
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I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.
Author:
Mike Weir
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I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.
Author:
Len Wein
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I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
Author:
Keenen Wayans
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Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Author:
Thomas Watson, Sr.
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I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Author:
Tom Watson
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Author:
George Washington
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Author:
George Washington
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Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Author:
Charles Warner
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What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Author:
Sam Walton
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
Author:
James Walsh
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For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
Author:
David Wallace
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There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.
Author:
Murray Walker
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Author:
Margaret Walker
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Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
Author:
Greg Walden
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As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.
Author:
Greg Walden
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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Author:
Voltaire
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Author:
Paul Valery
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The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Author:
Mark Twain
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One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Author:
Ivan Turgenev
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Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Author:
Donald Trump
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I fought fire with oil.
Author:
Dalton Trumbo
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
Author:
Robert Toombs
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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Author:
Nikola Tesla
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Author:
Tertullian
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Love is friendship set on fire.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Author:
Publilius Syrus
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Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Author:
Donald Sutherland
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Author:
Theodore Sturgeon
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
Author:
James Stockdale
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When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
Author:
Jackie Stewart
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The fire burns as the novel taught it how.
Author:
Wallace Stevens
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
Author:
Richard Steele
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Author:
Barbara Steele
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
Author:
Sylvester Stallone
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
Author:
Latrell Sprewell
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My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.
Author:
Catherine Spence
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Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.
Author:
Thomas Smith
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Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Author:
Roy Smith
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In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
Author:
Agnes Smedley
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?
Author:
Marc Singer
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.
Author:
George Simpson
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No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Author:
Gene Simmons
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Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Author:
Charles Simmons
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Author:
Navjot Sidhu
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I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
Author:
Dinah Shore
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"Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
Author:
Craig Shirley
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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.
Author:
Fred Shero
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That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
Author:
Thomas Shepard
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I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Author:
Charlie Sheen
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
Author:
George Shaw
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O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us.
Author:
Giuliana Sgrena
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At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.
Author:
Robert Service
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
Author:
Jon Secada
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There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.
Author:
Bobby Scott
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Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.
Author:
Izabella Scorupco
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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Author:
Delmore Schwartz
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And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.
Author:
Robert Scheer
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The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Author:
Jessica Savitch
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For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
Author:
George Santayana
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
Author:
R. Salvatore
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I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work.
Author:
David Russell
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Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Author:
Rita Rudner
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We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
Author:
Warren Rudman
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Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
Author:
Kelly Rowland
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Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.
Author:
Mike Ross
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Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.
Author:
Leonard Rose
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The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.
Author:
Don Rose
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The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
Author:
Don Rose
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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
Author:
Gene Roddenberry
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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.
Author:
George Ripley
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
Author:
Buddy Rich
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Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Author:
Jean Racine
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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
Author:
Roger Rabutin
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
Author:
Ernie Pyle
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The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Author:
Martin Puryear
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Author:
Joseph Priestley
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Author:
J. Priestley
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The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.
Author:
Richard Price
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Author:
Edgar Poe
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Author:
Plutarch
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There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.
Author:
Michael Pitt
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I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.
Author:
Rosamund Pike
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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Author:
Marge Piercy
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
Author:
Ferdinand Piech
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But clearly, this is what this is about. It's about pushing the security bubble out. It's about rooting out every last guy, so that there's not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.
Author:
David Petraeus
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The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
Author:
Timothy Pawlenty
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In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
Author:
Bill Pascrell
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I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Author:
Dolly Parton
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I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Author:
Dolly Parton
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In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Author:
Estelle Parsons
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The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Author:
Ovid
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
Author:
George Orwell
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As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
Author:
Mohammed Omar
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I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
Author:
Alex O'Loughlin
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.
Author:
Oliver North
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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
Author:
John Newcombe
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We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
Author:
Knute Nelson
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You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Author:
Bob Nelson
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Author:
Gamal Nasser
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What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
Author:
Max Muller
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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 is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.
Author:
Sun Moon
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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Author:
Dwight Moody
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Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.
Author:
Ronnie Montrose
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I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.
Author:
Ronnie Montrose
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Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Author:
Andrea Mitchell
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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Author:
Joan Miro
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Author:
Henry Miller
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
Author:
Linda McCartney
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I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
Author:
James McAvoy
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It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Author:
Elsa Maxwell
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Author:
Jose Marti
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
Author:
Burke Marshall
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Author:
Ed Markey
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Author:
Ed Markey
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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
Author:
Kamisese Mara
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Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.
Author:
Joe Manchin III
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Author:
Paul Man
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Author:
Bill Maher
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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
Author:
John Lyly
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Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
Author:
Frank Luntz
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
Author:
Amy Lowell
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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
Author:
Amy Lowell
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A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
Author:
James Longstreet
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The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
Author:
James Longstreet
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Author:
Augustus Longstreet
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.
Author:
Titus Livius
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They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.
Author:
Ron Livingston
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Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
Author:
Max Lerner
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Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
Author:
Fernand Leger
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
Author:
John Legend
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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
Author:
Chris LeDoux
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I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.
Author:
Steve Largent
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Author:
Ann Landers
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They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.
Author:
Burt Lancaster
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Author:
Abraham Kuyper
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
Author:
Frank Knox
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
Author:
Imran Khan
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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.
Author:
Charles Kennedy
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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
Author:
Kevin Kelly
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As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
Author:
John Keble
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
Author:
John Keats
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Author:
Mitchell Kapor
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
Author:
Dean Kamen
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Author:
Franklin Jones
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
Author:
Pamela Johnson
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It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Author:
Clive James
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The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
Author:
John Jakes
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I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.
Author:
Reggie Jackson
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Genius is initiative on fire.
Author:
Holbrook Jackson
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I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.
Author:
Bo Jackson
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author:
Washington Irving
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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Author:
Washington Irving
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Author:
Washington Irving
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
Author:
Henry Hudson
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?
Author:
Joseph Howe
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Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Author:
Horace
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It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
Author:
Horace
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
Author:
Mark Hoppus
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After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
Author:
Tom Hooper
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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
Author:
Lou Holtz
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Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Author:
Oliver Holmes
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Author:
Abbie Hoffman
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
Author:
Hippocrates
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All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.
Author:
Paul Hindenburg
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In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
Author:
Charlton Heston
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The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Author:
Hermann Hesse
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Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Author:
Heraclitus
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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Author:
Hermann Helmholtz
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I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit." As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
Author:
Mitch Hedberg
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Author:
Stephen Hawking
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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
Author:
James Harrington
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Author:
Mia Hamm
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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Author:
Alexander Hamilton
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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Author:
Edward Hale
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
Author:
John Haldane
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Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Author:
Gary Gygax
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There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don't feel grateful to them for their work.
Author:
Jasmine Guy
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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
Author:
Val Guest
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
Author:
Zane Grey
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I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Author:
Amy Grant
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We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.
Author:
Jennifer Granholm
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Author:
Martha Graham
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We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
Author:
Austan Goolsbee
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You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Author:
Ellen Goodman
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.
Author:
John Glover
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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Author:
Arnold Glasow
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Author:
Ellen Glasgow
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From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
Author:
Philip Gibbs
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To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.
Author:
Jim Garrison
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Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Author:
Solomon Gabirol
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Author:
Thomas Fuller
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Author:
Margaret Fuller
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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 inconvenience.
Author:
Robert Fulghum
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
Author:
J. Fulbright
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Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Author:
Robert Frost
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Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
Author:
Louis Freeh
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Author:
John Foster
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Author:
E. Forster
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
Author:
Luke Ford
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Author:
Ferdinand Foch
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I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.
Author:
Bobby Flay
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It's not a party until the fire department shows up.
Author:
Thom Filicia
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I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
Author:
Rachel Field
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I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
Author:
Oded Fehr
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Author:
Dakota Fanning
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In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.
Author:
William Falconer
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Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.
Author:
John Elway
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
Author:
Daniel Ellsberg
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I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
Author:
David Ellis
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My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
Author:
Kim Elizabeth
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Author:
T. Eliot
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Author:
George Eliot
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The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.
Author:
Charles Eastman
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Author:
Henry Dyke
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Author:
Frederick Douglass
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Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Author:
Richard Dooling
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
Author:
John Donne
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.
Author:
Kenelm Digby
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Author:
Emily Dickinson
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To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
Author:
James Dickey
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You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.
Author:
Peter Dawson
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To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Author:
Richard Davis
