#fire

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#crucial #deadly #eastern #expedite #experienced

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#cake #even #feel #fire #give

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#desperation #fire #full-bodied #honest #over

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#am #around #blue #charged #cooler

I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#equipment #firefighters #i #lives #maryland

Nothing like having a warrant for your exicution to get a girl motivated. ↗

— Maria V. Snyder

#funny #funny

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fire #honest #means #nothing #passion

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. ↗

— Joan Miro

#clinical #conceived #coolness #executed #fire

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record. ↗