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• I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Work, Humor

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

  William Shakespeare

  Rivers, Suffering, Littles

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

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• Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

  Tertullian

  Frying Pans, Thai, Frying

  Tertullian (1956). “De Carne Christi Liber: Treatise on the Incarnation”

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• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Glasses, Rays

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• You know nothing, Jon Snow

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Knowing Nothing, Ice

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1758, Bantam

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• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

  Mae West

  Funny, Women, Baldness

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Perfection, Littles, Brilliant

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• Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Eye, Break Off

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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.161

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• O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Kissing, Long

  'Fatima' (1832) st. 3

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• Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Wisdom, Spiritual

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

  Cher

  Love, Husband, Funny Wedding Advice

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• Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

  Robert Frost

  Ice, Poetry, World

  "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)

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• Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Sparks, Limits

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.636, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Wedding Anniversary, Sparks

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, Nicholas Rowe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.328

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• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Witty, Block

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• Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

  Otto Weininger

  Oxygen, Flames, Enemy

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• I owe everything to the gift of Pentecost. For fifty days the facts of the Gospel were complete, but no conversions were recorded. Pentecost registered three thousand souls. It is by fire that a holy passion is kindled in the soul whereby we live the life of God. The soul's safety is in its heat. Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, make for a Church without power.

  Samuel Chadwick

  God, Christian, Truth

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• Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Burning, Theory, Spoil

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• There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

  John Lyly

  Arise, Smoke

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.120, Manchester University Press

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• For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Alarms, Would Be

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