A Quote by George Herbert

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

George Herbert

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Fire Great Great Ones Out Put

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

George Herbert

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

William Penn

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

Isaac Asimov

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

William Shakespeare

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Peter Kreeft

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Harrison Ford

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

William Shakespeare

Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

B. W. Powe

If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.

Ignatius of Loyola

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Bob Riley

I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.

Angelina Jolie

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

Anthony Horowitz

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Ben Bernanke

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.