Emily Dickinson Quotes, Book Quotes, Fire Quotes

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

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There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

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Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

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Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Fire Quotes

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

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for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

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Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

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That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

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

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

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The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Fire Quotes , United States Quotes

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

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What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Fire Quotes , Clothes Quotes

The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Fire Quotes

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fire Quotes , Would Be Quotes