“If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.” PeopleIfsNeedsSoulEarthTogetherMotherSongWaterFireAirFlowerFemaleRitualAdoreInvolving Author:Paulo Coelho
“There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation.” PeopleAbilityRoomsVisionFireGraceEmotionalInspireIntegrityElementsSixCriticalAuthenticityReputationFakeEmotional IntelligenceInspire OthersDecisivenessStellarGravitas Author:Sylvia Ann Hewlett
“There were incredibly complex societies already existing in North America long before Europeans arrived. So many people think that before European contact it was just Natives huddling around a fire, waiting for civilization to come save them. But that was not the case.” PeopleThinkingLongAmericaWaitingCasesFireCivilizationComplexesContactNorth America Author:Joseph Boyden
“When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.” PeopleWayKindCharacterStoriesDesireCultureFightingEffortRolesFireViolenceObjectsBabyPicksGunFemaleDoctorsAbuseSafetyWoodsViolentTortureRejectsHospitalsGuardianExpertiseFemale CharactersSquatNot PrettyDisenfranchisedObjects Of Desire Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“You can't actually hire and fire people inside of an open source community. Which means that getting people to work together is much more along the lines of making sure that people have the tools they need both to get their work done but also to know what is being done by other people and how to take that to their employer and tell that story to their employer and to show this is why the community is good and this is why we're working on these sort of things because it helps us over here.” PeopleKnowsNeedsMeanDoneHelpingStoriesShowsTogetherCommunityLinesFireSourceToolsWorking TogetherEmployersWork DoneBeing DoneOpen Source Author:John Dickinson
“I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and I had a house on Fire Island, and they were part of a set of people that were all close and friendly, most of whom were involved in show business in one regard or another. So it was always familiar to me, and I kind of enjoyed it.” PeopleKindShowsHouseParentCitiesFireNew YorkBabyGrewInvolvedGrew UpAbsolutesRegardFamiliarEnjoyedIslandsFriendlyNew York CityMy SisterShow Business Author:Fred Melamed
“While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.” PeopleLittlesMadeSidesChurchFireSawsWalkingCatholicSouthWoodsParksTruckCarpetCatholic Church Author:Sara Paretsky
“Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people.” PeopleFireClintonCampaignsPostsOnlineReach OutOffendedBlogsLatino Author:Ari Shapiro
“That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.” PeopleWayWantFeelsLyingOrderFireWillingCampaignsPropagandaManipulate Author:Margaret Cho
“When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.” PeopleGrowing UpFireGrowingImagineRiversLeavingCatchingClevelandCatching On Author:Celeste Ng
“What's fascinating is where they come from in the world. People in Bangladesh, a chap in a fire-base in Tikrit in Iraq. Chap in an Irish pub in Dublin. And lovely to think this literary network - or rather network of readers - is well spread out.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsFireReaderIraqSpreadLovelyFascinatingPubsBangladeshDublinChaps Author:John Gimlette
“It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get the most credit. But for Hall, unfortunately, the data are all impressionistic - what people said. None of his machinery survived. His patents were all lost in the Patent Office fire.” PeopleShouldSaidLostStepsClearFireOfficeApproachOriginalsCreditDataHallsSurvivedMachineryPatents Author:Charles R. Morris
“I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingMindLooksBigsSpeakEasyBehindsFireBiggerHotDeeperSillyButtonsMiscellaneousFieryMisconstrued Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.” PeopleWorldGivingTryingMindHeartSoulChristianYoungJoyFireGive MeClassroomReignSuperficialHeart And MindHeart And SoulBling Author:Cornel West
“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.” PeopleIfsWayGivingMayDesireDiesFireSweetActivityFameConcernedLongingFortuneIllIllnessExcitementTaoismFlavorCandyUnrealChewingSexual Desire Author:Zicheng Hong
“Debt deflation is when there's less money that people have to spend out of their paychecks on goods and services, because they're paying the FIRE sector. Oil going down is a function of the supply and demand of oil in the market. It's a separate phenomenon.” PeopleFireDemandFunctionDebtOilGoodsPhenomenonPaychecksGoods And ServicesSupply And DemandDeflation Author:Michael Hudson
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.” PeopleIfsKnowsWarCharacterFireDangerStressMalesExtremity Author:George Packer
“The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.” PeopleWorldHeartFireFailingInspireMy HeartFairsWarmSparksGood PeopleBelly Author:Sally Kohn
“I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.” PeoplePersonsBornFireHungerPassionateBurningExceptionInsatiableKnowledge And ExperienceFire BurningBurning InsideInsatiable Hunger Author:Nikki Reed
“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightWould BeRunningOrderHouseFireHeardStreetsWalkingMessagesNewsHighestScreamGood NewsIrresponsibleNegligence Author:Greg Laurie
“I'm moved by us, our quirks and mistakes. I find inspiration in everything from a piece of art to the hem of a dress. I'm one of those people who sees Frank Zappa in a cup of coffee, or elephants wrestling in clouds. But also, conscious creation of all kinds moves me. And a divinely expressed performance in any genre sets me completely on fire.” PeopleKindArtInspirationMovingMistakeFirePiecesCreationConsciousPerformancesDressesMovedCloudsCoffeeAll KindsCupsGenreWrestlingFrankElephantsCoffee CupQuirksHemZappa Author:Idara Victor
“Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.” PeopleKindRaceFireBombsAssaultRiflesTimerDumpstersAssault Rifles Author:Richard Engel
“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHas BeensGovernmentRememberIndividualHalfRecordsFireInformationCrossesShould HaveGood ThingsClintonCaughtEmailTransparencyShould Have Been Author:Jill Stein
“If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.” PeopleIfsBigsDiesNextHouseWaterHalfFireWindLandscapeSiteDamsRidges Author:Bill Mollison
“You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.” PeopleIfsFire Author:Rachel Platten
“I took over a city that had two riots in four years and I had none. And they knew they couldn't riot on me. And when I saw the people on the street in New York City, I said to myself, you're breaking Giuliani's rules. You don't take my streets. You can have my sidewalks, but you don't take my streets, because ambulances have to get through there, fire trucks have to get through there.” PeopleYearsSaidTwoCitiesFireSawsFourStreetsNew YorkNew York CityFour YearsTruckRiotSidewalkAmbulance Author:Rudy Giuliani
“It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish bullshit that drives the individuals who are supposedly in charge of these countries. It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment.” PeopleNeedsBelieveWarSelfCountryHardMomentsIndividualFireWeaponsNuclearSelfishContrastNuclear WeaponsCompellingBullshitPettySelf CenteredHard To BelieveSelf Centered People Author:Jay Roach
“It's hard to believe that these self-centered people have nuclear weapons that they can fire at any moment. Even modern wars are fought like revenge tales from some petty grievance. It was definitely tapping into the Dr. Strangelove vibe, which is one of my three top favorite films or all time.” PeopleBelieveWarSelfHardMomentsFilmThreeFireModernWeaponsRevengeNuclearTalesAll TimeNuclear WeaponsDrsPettySelf CenteredGrievanceHard To BelieveTappingModern WarSelf Centered People Author:Jay Roach
“Now it seems like hip hop belongs to the people you see in the videos and radios. So I want to give it bring it back to the hood, make a statement for NY to put us back in our proper perspective, and of course let them know that Ra still spits fire.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingStillsSeemsCoursesFirePerspectiveHip HopRadioStatementsVideoHipsHopsSpitHood Author:Rakim
“Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.” PeopleThinkingEnoughRememberFireAmountWeightContrarySmokeGentleEnginesThrust Author:John Glenn
“I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.” PeopleKnowsSaidTwoVoiceAttentionFireHeardReadyPaperDestroyingClayColumnsAttention SpanShort Attention SpansSimply Said Author:Nat Hentoff
“I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFireDangerousPolicyTrumpWillingnessRhetoricIdeologues Author:Megyn Kelly
“I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.” PeopleThinkingKindFireFeetAll Kinds Author:Desmond Tutu
“I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindImportantKidsUsedHumanityStuffUnderstandingTeachFireBuildingDepthArchitectureFuel Author:Frank Gehry
“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindPersonsShowsBigsArtistRealizingDealsFireStrangeHugePerceptionTunesEmbarrassingBig DealCocoonsItunesArcadesShow TunesArcade Fire Author:Anna Kendrick
“People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.” PeopleThinkingWarDoneMightFireGoes OnDecadesCease Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Hatred of the people who hate you, that is the opposite of being the enemy. I want to fight fire with water wherever I can.” PeopleWantI CanHateFightingWaterEnemyFireHatredOppositesHate You Author:Van Jones
“I think this [ statement that Donald Trump would fight for LGBTQ people] is not just a story of the media spinning people up, but it's a story of special interests on the left, who also feel like their candidate lost, and stoking the flames on the fire because it helps spin up their supporters and help their donations and help their organizations. And it helps, frankly, polarize the country to their short-term benefit and at the expense, frankly, of progress for LGBTQ Americans.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCountryHelpingStoriesFightingLostLeftTermInterestFireProgressSpecialMediaTrumpBenefitsOrganizationStatementsFlamesCandidatesExpensesSupporterShort TermSpinningSpecial InterestsDonation Author:Margaret Hoover
“For morning news, people want to know as they are getting dressed, as they are getting ready to leave [for work], "what has happened in the world overnight?" Morning news is a sure-fire way to find out what that is. I personally love and celebrate the fact that you can go to bed and the world is one way and you wake up and it's totally different.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantDifferentFactsMorningFireHappenedReadyBedNewsWake UpCelebrateOne WayGetting DressedReady To Leave Author:Gayle King
“Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."” PeopleKnowsWantKindMadeSometimesSpeakWishFireHeardQuietComplainingBurningProphetBreastsKnowing GodWish YouDeep LoveCondemnationJeremiahFire Burning Author:Desmond Tutu
“One thing I'd like to just keep on doing is I want to educate people about animal behavior and about autism. I've been doing autism talks for the last 20 years and there still are people out there that do not want to, they can't recognize that these sensory problems are real. That, for some of these kids when that fire alarm goes off, that really hurts the ears, it's a really real thing.” PeopleWantYearsStillsRealProblemKidsLastsHurtAnimalFireOne ThingBehaviorEarsEducateAutismAlarmsReal ThingsSensoryAnimal Behavior Author:Temple Grandin
“I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingI CanEyeCan DoTeachFireDialogueNecksPlot Author:Colum McCann
“I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing.” PeopleTryingKindMeanCausesEasyFireRelaxed Author:Noah Baumbach
“I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.” PeopleAbleMistakeFireSmartTrials Author:Shia LaBeouf
“Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.” PeopleKnowsAmericaKnow HowFireIllDepartmentUrbanNorth AmericaUnderpaidFire Department Author:Denis Leary
“My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.” PeopleTryingLeftFireFiveMiddleBuildingCoupleMassDiedWarmNeighborhoodHomelessCousinJerryHometownDowntownFirefighterMy CousinWarehouseHomeless PeopleOld Neighborhood Author:Denis Leary
“Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.” PeopleYearsViewsDoubtFireFourMediaOfficeBenefitsDestroyingFour YearsPresidencyProtectiveBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.” PeopleEarthForceBornFireRightsDogEventsMovementSightPoliceClubsCivil RightsEpicGood WillCrowCivil Rights MovementDegradationJim CrowSouthernerLynchingCivil Right MovementPlain Sight Author:Jon Meacham
“The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensSometimesMomentsFactsGivenSocialWaitingMillionsFireOne ThingMediaSocial MediaOnlineAnswering Questions Author:Susan Orlean