Quotes with fire)

Quotes 101 till 120 of 185.

  • William Shakespeare Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ann Landers 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.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Bruce Lee 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.
    Artist of Life
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Dorothea Brande Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bobby Flay Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Max Lerner 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.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • James Baldwin No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. H. Auden Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • William Shakespeare O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carlo Collodi Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • John W. Foster One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Butch Trucks Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Abigail Van Buren People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • John Butler Yeats Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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