#flame

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? ↗

— Amy Grant

#away #does #else #everything #exposing

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#down #explodes #flame #go #i

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#gasoline #holding #lips #may #mouth

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#feats #flame #head #held #instead

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#commenced #dread #enthusiast #even #infinitely

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#creativity #effectiveness #flame #improve #interest

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#fierce #first #flame #hang #heart