Quotes of: Fires Keyword

When a king is about to lose his power his orders burn more intensely than fire.

Tibetan

Don't set the attic on fire just because you didn't catch any mice.

Vietnamese

I know you're just trying to be kind. But the world isn't always kind. So sometimes you have to know what you're up against, and match it.' He held up a hand to stop the words about to be spoken; I could see the vague shape of it hovering in the blac...

Chasing Trains

Mom," Nathan called to her. Daisy pulled her gaze from the tent and the fleeting glimpse of Jack's bare back, the smooth planes and indent of his spine, the sliver of the white elastic just above the blue waistband of his jeans..."Hmm?" "What's a faa...

Daisy's Back in Town

Our communities basically want the same things—safe, clean environments; affordable, adequate housing and transportation; educational opportunities; accessible, quality health care; meaningful work at a fair wage; and equitable services for everyon...

Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change

(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God, cannot be seen but permits us to see everything there is, perhaps because fire liberates the energy hidden in a l...

Overcoming Life's Disappointments

Hummingbird Flitting, darting A restless quest To fuel a fire That burns your breast Seeking sweetness For selfish glee Bringing gifts So heedlessly Your touch a trigger You fire life Igniting beauty In vibrant strife To equal you In colors bright Th...

Michael Sullivan

Jace shook his head. “I don’t care if I did just set myself on fire,” he said. “I’m not hugging you.

City of Heavenly Fire

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

A Fire Upon the Deep

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

A Fire Upon the Deep

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end.

Fire with Fire

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

The Fire in Fiction: Passion, Purpose and Techniques to Make Your Novel Great

I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

The Fires of Heaven

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The Fire Next Time

The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The Fire Next Time

I have rubbed shoulders with the rich, the powerful, and the armless. It’s how to network when handshakes aren’t an option.

How to put out forest fires with your naked body

To know oneself and one’s end or goal in life is true wisdom—knowledge of the heart more than the head.

A Heart on Fire: Rediscovering Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

The fire that had been raging inside her ever since she met him, ever since she left him, was now having gasoline thrown on top of it--by the gallon.

Bonds of Fire

In 1901, Jacksonville burned down in a fire, killing only seven people. Well, the fire killed four people, and I murdered the other three.

I am Jacksonville

The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect & love, for love is divine.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.

The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent