Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Farrell

The fire was pushing higher and higher on the fire escape. The flames kind of trapped them in this little space. ... The fire was only a foot or a foot and a half away from these guys.

Morihei Ueshiba

IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

Miles Franklin

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ...

Margaret Walker

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

Jose Marti

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

Jorge Luis Borges

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Khaled Hosseini

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

Khalil Gibran

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Robert H. Schuller

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

Susan Sontag

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

Ray Lewis

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

Randy Alcorn

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Thomas Jefferson

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...

Swami Vivekananda

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.