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It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.
Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.
What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.
The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
My parents played the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson. The best pop music to infiltrate a child's mind.
Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.
You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.
I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.
Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.
I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.
What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.
The Patriot Act followed 9-11 as smoothly as the suspension of the Weimar constitution after the Reichstag Fire Decree.
When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
One must look hard through history to find when a clear understanding of the truth moved anyone to fire the first shot.
And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.
Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.
Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.
I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.
In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
Remember: once you have ascertained that you are dealing with hostile intruders, the staircase becomes a free-fire zone.
The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body.
Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.
To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.