Quotes 21 till 40 of 185.
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Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
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As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready- Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire.
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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.
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the suffocating night.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 30, st. 4 -
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.
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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.
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Calmness is great advantage; he that lets another chafe, may warm him at his fire.
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Cannons and fire-arms are cruel and damnable machines; I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the Devil. If Adam had seen in a vision the horrible instruments his children were to invent, he would have died of grief.
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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
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Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?
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