#fires

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#artist #blaze #day #divine #each

A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#fireheart #firepaw #firestar #hunter #medicine

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#does #fires #irate #keen #majority

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#daily work #dead #effort #enthusiasm #even

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses. ↗

— William Bligh

#cape #daylight #fires #first #first time

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#mighty #minds #play #stimulate #untrained

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#did #fires #go #hear #i

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ↗

— Cher

#fires #go #husbands #left #like

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#fires #hatred #hostility #perishes #petty

Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#common #doors #fires #houses #kind