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“I’m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the first thing we ever did, when we started turning into humans, was draw a line across the cave door and say: Wild stays out. What I do is what the first men did. They built walls to keep back the sea. They fought the wolves for the hearth fire.”

Thinking Men Firsts Humans Heart Night Guy Lines Wonder Fire Doors Sea Wall Draws Built Caves

Author:Tana French

“I always make it a rule to let the other fellow fire first. If a man wants to fight, I argue the question with him and try to show him how foolish it would be. If he can't be dissuaded, why then the fun begins but I always let him have first crack. Then when I fire, you see, I have the verdict of self-defence on my side. I know that he is pretty certain in his hurry, to miss. I never do.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Trying Firsts Self Shows Would Be Certain Fighting Fun Sides Fire Missing Fellows Arguing Foolish Cracks Defence Verdict Self Defence

Author:Ben Thompson

“Do not analyze things to death. Sometimes the best strategy is, "Ready, fire, aim." Do it first , then make adjustments. The answer lies in action-not in words.”

Firsts Sometimes Action Lying Answers Practice Fire Ready Aim Strategy Adjustment

Book:Zen Guitar

Source: Zen Guitar

“The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.”

Firsts Earth Fire Tree Blood Angel Thirds Green Forests Grass Burned Trumpets Hail Green Grass

Author:John the Apostle

“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”

World Firsts Earth Science Fire Four Air Elements Perception Roots Wide Senses Our World Wet Hunts Laboratory Great Ones Elements Of Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”

Firsts Lying Fire Society Skills Forests Smoke Sniffing Forest Fires

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.”

Firsts Fire Burning

Author:P. K. Page

“A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.”

Firsts Long Stills Moments Causes Parent Born Grief Fire Son Foolish Superiors Latter Long Life Blazing

Author:Chanakya

“I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.”

People Firsts Home Running Found Fire Painting Importance Testament

Author:Robert Genn

“President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.”

Thinking Way Firsts President Fire Plans Europe Presidential President Obama Ceo Bmw Volkswagens

Author:David Letterman

“How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?”

Ifs Firsts Fire Cutting Burning Fuel Ignite Inferno

Author:Arun Manilal Gandhi

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.”

Firsts Soul Character Suffering Heaven Fire Tears Sorrow Massive Gates Strongest Scar Martyr Robes Sorrowful Coronation Gates Of Heaven

Author:Bill Vaughan