#fire

All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through. ↗

— Ada Limon

#change #destiny #dream #change

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#does #fire #lost #set #which

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#fire #genius #set #talent

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#been #cars #certain #chance #circumstances

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#fires #his #impossibilities #made #man

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers. ↗

— Luke Ford

#fire #gut #had #i #incompetent

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#books #collective #curtains #dignity #drawn

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody. ↗

— Martha Stewart

#even #ever #fired #firing #i