Winston Churchill Quotes, Fire Quotes, United States Quotes

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

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In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Persistence Quotes , Fire Quotes

A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?

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Tags : Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes , Fire Quotes , Wind Quotes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Fire Quotes , Soul Quotes

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Eye Quotes , Fire Quotes

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

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This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Fire Quotes , Air Quotes

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

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Tags : Aidan Quinn Quotes , Fire Quotes , Focus Quotes

A burnt child loves the fire.

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The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

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And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Men Quotes , Fire Quotes

Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Fire Quotes

So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Dark Quotes , Fire Quotes

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.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

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Tags : Akira Kurosawa Quotes , Real Quotes , Fire Quotes

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

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Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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