Quotes by Fire The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke. Tyler Cowen flavorfireworld Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow. Tyler Ward dysfunctionfirehelping My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears. Tupac Shakur baptized-infiredeath If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car on fire, it’s a punishable offence. If hundreds of cars are set on fire, it’s political action. Protest is when I say I don’t agree with something. Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place. Ulrike Meinhof carpoliticalfire If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action. Ulrike Meinhof carpoliticalfire They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies? Upton Sinclair firehumblemen After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? Umberto Eco passionlightfire Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town. Ursula Vernon cathard-workfire In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. Umberto Eco flamesfirewar Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? Ursula K. Le Guin firedesireheart Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth. Val Guest russiafireamerica Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords. Ursula K. Le Guin lordfirefear Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. Two Welsh preachers were on their way to a meeting. One noticed that the other carried written outlines. 'Ah,' he remonstrated, 'you cannot carry fire on paper.' 'True,' replied his companion, 'but you can use paper to start a fire!' Vance Havner firementwo We have gotten to the point where we're more like [Donald] Trump than Trump. Trump is hateful. Now you have liberals hating on love. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. There's nothing wrong with that. But sometimes you have to fight fire with water. I'm happy to fight it either way. Van Jones hatefightingfire Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire. Van Jones climatemoonfire Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can. Van Jones hatefightingfire We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both. Vance Havner lightfirechristian Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. Vance Havner oughtpreacherfire No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips. Vance Havner lipsfirefacts If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. Vance Havner citiesgoldfire«177178179180181182183184185186187»
