Quotes by Fire It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack. Gilbert K. Chesterton firehandspeople Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes. Gustav Mahler ashestraditionfire Working and making a fire doth discretion require. George Herbert discretionfire Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. Guy Verhofstadt friendssafetyfire You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out. George Herbert firelows I want to hear the chanting Gwendolyn B. Bennett singingracefire Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire. George Herbert advantagefiremay Let anger's fire be slow to burn. George Herbert fire Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell. Hadewijch lightfirespring love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come. Hadewijch fireagelove-is Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. H. G. Wells ashesleaderfire at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT. Gwendolyn Brooks leavingmomentsfire Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw paintingfiredoors Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat. Friedrich Nietzsche winefiregiving It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves. Friedrich Nietzsche winefireart I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head. Hakuin Ekaku selfsecretfire Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. Hakim Bey envyfirebaby 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. H. P. Lovecraft firewould-beworld So the president is like, "Well, once upon a time it was Congress's job to decide whether or not we attacked countries, so let's let them decide." Which is funny, because, as we all know, if Congress were on fire, Congress could not pass the "Pour Water on Congress Act". Hank Green firejobscountry If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth. Hanif Kureishi burningtonguefire«6162636465666768697071»
