1,723 Quotes About Fire


  • Author William Butler Yeats
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    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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  • Author William Butler Yeats
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    Because of that great nobleness of hersThe fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,Burns but more clearly.

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  • Author David Ziegler
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    For profit is the No. 1 cause. Then there's revenge, retaliation and now ...terrorism. You still have your traditional fire-setting just for thrills.

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  • Author Ernst Zundel
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    You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

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  • Author Salvador Zamora
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    A weapon is a weapon is a weapon. It could be a grapefruit-sized rock. It could be a vehicle used at any rate of speed to try to run over an agent. Or it could be somebody shooting sniper fire from the Mexican side. They're all dangerous.

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  • Author A. S. Byatt
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    In my mind's eye Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

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