Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Harkin

For the good of our country, the safety of our troops, and our image around the globe, Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, ... If he does not resign forthwith, the president should fire him.

For profit is the No. 1 cause. Then there's revenge, retaliation and now ...terrorism. You still have your traditional fire-setting just for thrills.

Ivan Turgenev

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Huston Smith

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

J. K. Rowling

Professor,” Harry gasped. “Your bird — I couldn’t do anything — he just caught fire —

Nancy Lublin

Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Kathryn Minshew

If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

Katherine Paterson

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Karen Traviss

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Ryan Hollins

At least they're learning now instead of being thrown into the fire during tournament time, which makes a big difference.

Lindy Ruff

A big trade like that gave them a lot of momentum right off the bat. I thought they were pretty fired up.

More and more money is being extracted from of the production and consumption economy to pay the FIRE sector. That's what causes debt deflation and shrinks markets. If you pay the banks, you have less to spend on goods and services.

Michael Bay

I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

Ray Bradbury

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Ray Bradbury

Fire the doubters out of your life.

Rachel Weisz

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

Sharon Shinn

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Shane Black

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

Seamus Heaney

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

Sean Connery

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Seth Godin

You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

Seth Godin

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “ “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “ “Everyone is not your customer. “ “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Tom DeLonge

Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.

Sissela Bok

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

Simon Van Booy

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

Rajneesh

Light is shallow; darkness is infinitely deep. Light is always bounded, it has boundaries. Darkness has no boundaries, it is unbounded. Light comes and goes; darkness always is. When there is light you cannot see it. When light is not there you can see it. But it is always there; you cannot cause it. Light has a cause. You burn the fire, you put on wood. When the wood is finished the light will be gone. It is caused, hence it is an effect. But darkness is not caused by anything, it is not an effect. It is uncaused eternity.

Rajneesh

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Rajneesh

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You smoke? (Randy) Only when I’m on fire. (Steele) I don’t appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I’m an acquired taste. (Steele)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ren frowned as he surveyed the madness they were knee-deep in. “Why are you under such heavy fire?” Nick gave him a droll stare. “Oh, I don’t know. But we’re really enjoying it. Fear has such a wonderfully romantic scent to it that they ought to turn it into cologne and deodorant. Eau de Ew. Let’s all just take a minute, and bask in it.

Mike Tyson

Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.

Miguel de Cervantes

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.