Quotes by Fire When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed. Wes Fesler hatedhatefire If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs. Whitey Herzog relieffiredog Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame. Wilferd Peterson inspirationfirelove-is Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent. Wilferd Peterson lightfireart Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians. Wilhelm Reich firerunninglong Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said. Will Carleton fireboysfall And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world. Will Durant lightfiremen For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire. Will Self firewritingbook I get all fired up about aging in America. Willard Scott firebirthdayamerica I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life. Willa Cather teethfirethinking A burnt dog dreads the fire. Willa Cather dreadfiredog If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! Willa Cather giving-uphatefire Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires. William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling flamesfiredesire Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. William Allingham autumnfirefall There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. Will Rogers politicswisdomfire The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction. William Baziotes risingblackfire On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. William Bligh glassesfirenight The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally. William Booth fireheartwatches There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it. William Borah passionfiresleep Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. William Booth humanityfireheart«182183184185186187188189190191192»
