"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

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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."

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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."

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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."

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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?"

Max Muller, German Educator

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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."

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"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."

J. B. Yeats, Irish Artist

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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."

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

"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."

"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."

"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."

"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?"

"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."

"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."

"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."

Explore more quotes by Franklin P. Jones

"Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses."

"One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening."

"The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis."

"When you get something for nothing, you just haven't been billed for it yet."

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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

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