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Fire Quotes
"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."
194
"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire."
175
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
92
"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."
Fire,
78
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
67
"Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire."
66
"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
66
"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
64
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
63
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
63
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
62
"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."
60
"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
60
"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
60
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
59
"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."
58
"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
Fire,
58
"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."
58
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
57
"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
Fire,
57
"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."
56
"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."
54
"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
53
"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?"
52
"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."
Fire,
52
"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
50
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
48
"No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band."
48
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
47
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
46
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