Top 1200 Burning Fire Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.

I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

What you learn from that first, and I don't call it 'trial by fire,' I call it 'baptism by fire,' is that you are going to have to take all of the responsibility, because basically when it gets right down to it, you are going to get all of the blame, so you might as well have made all of the decisions that led to people either liking it or disliking it. There's nothing worse than hearing somebody say 'Oh, you made that movie? I thought that movie sucked,' and you have to agree with them, you know?

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.

We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.

You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one reason thus. Purgatory fire will be more dreadful than whatever torments can be seen imagined, or endured in this world. He who is afraid now to put his finger into the fire, does he not fear lest he be then all buried in torments for a long time?

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Kim Jong-un has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.

I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

Being against the military because you are against war is like being against the Fire Department because you are against fire.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.

I happily claim expertise in no single aspect of climbing, which is what has kept the passion burning hot all these years.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I’m ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don’t have dragon wings, I don’t breathe fire, I’m only eight feet tall and I’ve never eaten a newborn that didn’t have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What’s yours?

A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was a fire coming from a certain direction and wind was coming from another, what was the best thing to do? The right answer was, "Run like hell and pray for rain," but few students ever got it. So allow yourself the freedom of knowing there are times to bail out, quit, run, leave the struggle, and have more time for joy.

"Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated happiness," said Mother, nodding her head comfortably. "Happiness drives out pain, as fire burns out fire."

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

When I left university, I didn't want to jump into anything right away. Music certainly wasn't a burning ambition.

Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.

Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.