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“To some Christians today, this world is not a sinking ship or a world reserved for fire. It is an international capitol building overrun with undesirables whom these believers plan to kick out. They will then take their place, renovating and governing it all themselves. Such thinking is symptomatic of a dying love for Jesus and a clinging to this world!”

Thinking World Today Christian Jesus Fire Plans Dying This World Building International Believer Ships Kicks Governing Reserved Clinging Sinking Capitol Dying Love

Author:David Wilkerson

“While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set.”

Thinking Needs Order Virtue Fire Standards Advantage Cooking Variety Fancy Fooled Gadgets Kettles Weber

Author:Barton Seaver

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”

Thinking Book Dark Fire Wind Rain Window Driving Voyages Sleet

Book:The Long Voyage

Source: The Long Voyage

“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.”

Thinking Country Turns Fall Given Fire Tree Promise Creating Capable Europe Seasons Brown Autumn Yellow Continents Frost Creating Beauty Portents

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men I Can Moments Hands Fire Air Honest Window Experience Certainty Assurance Consumed Honest Man Suspended Obstruction

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.”

People Thinking Important Purpose Dark Fire Written Lessons Excuse Behalf Important Lessons

Author:Angelina Jolie

“You know people exaggerate that all is wild in Jamaica. I think that sometimes people fire a shot to try to make you nervous. They are not trying to hurt you.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Sometimes Hurt Fire Shots Nervous Jamaica

Author:Michael Manley

“I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles.”

Thinking Would Be Fire Tricks Candle Factories

Author:Demetri Martin

“I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke.”

Thinking Humans Whole House Sleep Race Fire Smoke Denial Mechanism Suicidal

Author:Eve Ensler

“Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Joy Energy Fire Wonderful Becoming Burden Joyfulness

Author:Tulku Thondup

“I pray we are still a young and courageous nation, that we have not grown so old and so fat and so prosperous that all we can think about is to sit back with our arms around our money bags. If we choose to do that I have no doubt that the smoldering fires will burst into flame and consume us - dollars and all.”

Ifs Thinking Stills America Young Nations Doubt Fire Arms Praying Dollars Fats Flames No Doubt Bags Courageous Prosperous I Pray

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I went to England to tell jokes, and I wanted to tell my Smokey the Bear joke, but I had to ask the English people if they knew who Smokey the Bear is. But they don't. In England, Smokey the Bear is not the forest-fire-prevention representative. They have Smackie the Frog. It's a lot like a bear, but it's a frog. And that's a better system, I think we should adopt it. Because bears can be mean, but frogs are always cool. Never has there been a frog hopping toward me and I thought, "Man, I better play dead!"”

People Ifs Thinking Men Should Mean Play Humor Wanted Funny Asks Fire Bears Jokes England Forests Representatives Frogs Prevention Hopping Forest Fires

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.”

“I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a bringer of Promethean fire, some unique transmission that comes out of nowhere. I prefer the opposite view - that writers come from somewhere. They read things, and they think about them, and they incorporate other people's thoughts.”

People Thinking Space Views Fire Genius Mountain Unique Opposites Transmission

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Use Names Strong Fun Dark Fire Baby Internet Victory Unique Red France Greek Site Phoenix Matching

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.”

Thinking Inspirational Christian Religious Struggle Fire Produce Hunger Lust Rejects Orthodox Association Invitations Nourishment Visiting Gluttony Satiety Defilement

Author:Nilus of Sinai

“He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him”

“I think fire is so critical in the wild. You can cook with it, you can make tools, you can deter a predator, you can dry your clothes and you get that element of morale that matters so much when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

Thinking Matter Fire Middle Elements Clothes Tools Critical Stuck Cooks Dry Predator Morale Middle Of Nowhere Stuck In The Middle

Author:Bear Grylls

“If your house is on fire and you can only escape with your life and one thing, what one thing would you take out of your house? I got to think my laptop is the one thing that is totally irreplaceable. Either that or my son. Laptop. I'll go laptop.”

Ifs Thinking House Fire One Thing Son My Son Laptops Irreplaceable

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.”

Thinking Knows Fire Married Canada

Author:Tucker Carlson

“I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.”

Thinking Giving I Can Deals Fire Crazy Involved Prepared Technique Britain Truck Great Britain Ninja

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.”

People Thinking Knows World Long Fire Long Ago

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.”

Thinking Trying Earth Quality Music Fire Serious Wind Musician Died Clinton Touching Seventies Parliament Rejuvenation

Author:Maurice White

“The first splurge of creativity is kind of free, and the last 30 percent is painstakingly hard work, but it's good to light a fire and make it public and create that expectation. It's become part of the writing process, really, a way to ask the audience what they think, how they think it's going. I can't write songs in a vacuum.”

Thinking Way Writing Firsts Kind I Can Hard Light Lasts Song Asks Process Creativity Audience Fire Hard Work Expectations Percent Writing Process Vacuums

Author:Andrew Bird

“So, think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire across the sky for all and everything to see.For so, in truth, it is.So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent on hearing what you say.And so, in truth, it is.Do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your heads.And, so in truth it does.So wish as if you were the wish.And so, in truth, you are.So live as if your God Himself had need of you his life to live.And so, in truth, he does.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Doe Speak Wish Fire Sky Ears Deeds Hearing Recoil

Author:Mikhail Naimy

“Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.”

Thinking Lying Desire Fire Eating Conscious Sitting Drinking Passing Passings Saving Introspection Moderates Involvement Endeavour Lying Down Eating And Drinking

Author:Dogen

“When anyone hurts us, my wife and I sit in our Japanese sand garden and drink iced tea. There are five stone in the garden - for sky, wind, fire, water, and earth. We sit and think of five of the nicest things we can about the person who hurt us. If he hurts us a second time, we do the same thing. The third time, we light a candle, and he is, for us, dead.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Light Earth Water Hurt Fire Five Wife Sky Wind Drink Garden Stones Thirds My Wife Tea Sand Candle Third Time Iced Tea

Author:Red Skelton

“My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.”

Thinking Littles Hands Mother Father Emotion Hell Study Fire Tough Gentle Contradiction Preacher Nails Forward Thinking

Author:Patricia Montandon

“I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.”

People Thinking Children Would Be Next Fire Generations Afghanistan Next Generation Jihad

Author:Najibullah Quraishi

“One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.”

Ifs Thinking Fighting Water Fire Air Rocks Bird Flow Rivers Deeds Fighter Firm Thinker Finding Peace Fear Not Doers Pacifist Furnaces

Author:Menachem Mendel Schneerson

“For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.”

Thinking Ends Fire Temptation

Book:A Treatise on Good Works

Source: A Treatise on Good Works

“I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that I met and interacted with, in the sense that they tend to be highly eloquent, highly analytical, thinking people who have a very rapid-fire think-before-they-speak button, as it were.”

People Thinking Want Speak Fire Mets Profession Buttons Rapids Similarity Eloquent Generalization Legal Profession Barristers

Author:Rebecca Hall

“'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.”

Thinking Knows Men World Firsts Looks Doe Matter Reality Earth Remember Names Water Forget Fire Air Taste First Time Transformation Fellows Lips Esteem Look Up Air And Water Words Matter

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Do you think these sannyasi children of Sri Ramakrishna are born to simply to sit under trees lighting dhuni-fires? Whenever any of them will take up some work, people will be astonished to see their energy. Learn from them how to work.”

People Thinking Children Energy Born Fire Tree Lighting

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.”

Thinking World Way Stills Audience Fire Happened Stage Jokes Universal Theatre Wit Destroyed Clown Wags Hilarity

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.”

Thinking Forget Fire Sweat Expecting

Author:Lil Wayne

“I love music/sounds that have a passion, a fire, an energy I can connect with. I love angry sounding beat tracks, dark sounds for sure but I also love delicate sounds, they both connect I think. Discharge back in 1980 was a big explosion in sound for me to hear the anger and the energy, still an influence on me. Miles Davis has been an influence, as much as John Coltrane, Brian Eno, John Hassel. So much around me has influenced me: my everyday life, everything around me, the family, etc.... It has an impact.”

“Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.”

Thinking Believe Used Fire Smoke Believe In Me

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it.”

Thinking Children Fire Tvs Replaced Hooked Fireplaces

Author:John Lennon

“Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.”

Thinking Want Running Hell Fire Humility Modesty Modest

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

People Thinking Long America Waiting Cases Fire Civilization Complexes Contact North America

Author:Joseph Boyden

“One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.”

Thinking Knows Giving Heart Different Reason Pain Mother Black Religious Talking Support Fire Brother My Heart Give Me Islam Versions My Brother Adopted I Love Him Gasoline Muslim Women

Author:Kola Boof

“I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.”

Thinking Fire Citizens Scary Telling The Truth Attempting Good Citizen Really Scary Playing With Fire

Author:Cecily McMillan

“My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.”

Thinking School Dies Causes Ability Fire Smart My Favorite Villain Savages Really Cool Old School Gadgets Vandals

Author:Casper Crump

“Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.”

Thinking Years Littles Long Made Two Remember Order Born Class Fire One Thing Tree Brother Mom Crosses My Mom Shoulders Bridges My Brother Grades Camps Redwoods

Author:Zendaya

“I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.”

Thinking Knows Helping Home Light Night Fire Comfort Familiar Beach Consistent Warmth Candle Comforting Fireplaces Flickering Light

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that.”

Thinking Writing Kind Made Done Fire Car Conversation Distance Accidents Experts Execution Car Accident Distance Myself

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think how badly things can go wrong in our judicial system. All it took was one person saying that this was a deliberately set fire, and then a whole chain of information became malevolent.Criminal past - that worked all in their favor to create this "monster" - and they even used the word "monster." It's like, let's ensure that the public thinks he's an evil individual.”

Thinking Persons Whole Past Used Evil Individual Fire Information Criminals Favors Monsters Chains Judicial Judicial System

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire." That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment.”

Thinking World Needs Said War Play Eye Fire Example Perception Very Good Rings Cease Sentiments Allies Good Examples Lebanon Muslim World Anti-american

Author:Michael Scheuer

“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.”

People Thinking World Wells Fire Reader Iraq Spread Lovely Fascinating Pubs Bangladesh Dublin Chaps

Author:John Gimlette

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