Quotes by Fire You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire. Terry Pratchett catfirekids The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. Thomas Carlyle inventiondemonfire I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. Terry Pratchett painfireshould-have Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Thomas Overbury yieldflamesfire Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day Thomas Overbury coalnext-dayfire We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? Thomas Carlyle firecloudsscience To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. Thomas Secker temptationfiremight The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Thomas Carlyle sufferingfiremen In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. Thomas Carlyle firedarkmen Fire is the best of servants, but what a master! Thomas Carlyle servantmastersfire Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret. Thomas Carlyle secretfiremen It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson patrioticfirewar Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity. Thomas Carlyle elementslightfire No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? Thomas Sowell libertyfirematter Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen. Thomas Merton lightfireheart All the hatin just fuels to my fire. T.I. fuelfire Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high. T.I. firewaitingrunning You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive. Tift Merritt vigilantalivefire We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power. Thomas Paine religiousfirefather Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences. Thomas Paine fireoppositesreligion«173174175176177178179180181182183»
