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61 " Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with. "

― Joseph J. Ellis , His Excellency: George Washington

62 " Understanding the world too well, you see too many options and become as indecisive as Hamlet.
No matter how far we progress, we remain part animal, and it is the animal in us that fires our strategies, gives them life, animates us to fight. Without the desire to fight, without a capacity for the violence war churns up, we cannot deal with danger.
The prudent Odysseus types are comfortable with both sides of their nature. They plan ahead as best they can, see far and wide, but when it comes time to move ahead, they move. Knowing how to control your emotions means not repressing them completely but using them to their best effect. "

― Robert Greene , The 33 Strategies of War

63 " Passion towards a dream is the fuel that fires every trace of impossibility in the environment, paving way for you to win with style. "

― Israelmore Ayivor , Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

64 " There is no greater sensation of consciousness than to expend yourself completely through the quickening fires of passion. "

― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

65 " Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers--ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. "

― Madeleine L'Engle

66 " I feel the sunrise in the alley; the rain has stopped drumming on my windows and a smile comes across my once weary and teary eyed face. The music finds its volume again, and a maddening piano sends a fury of force up my spine and into my now focused mind. I am here to be of service, to light fires along the path so that they may provide direction for another. I cannot see behind me, and I do not know how this will make you feel – and the beautiful truth is that it matters none to me. I have received whatever it is I should receive from this, and though I hope you wake with happiness in your heart, I know I cannot worry myself. I have no control – I am but a writer and a poor boy who has found my heart ripened because I can send my thoughts into the ether. I am always a part of this when I take myself out of it. "

67 " A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

68 " For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably. "

― John Cheever

69 " You scared the crap out of me,” I shove his bare chest with a growl. “Was
that you at the front door?”

“Ya think?” He fires back with a raise of his eyebrows, taking hold of my arm
again, as he practically drags me back
toward the front entry.

“Did it occur to you to say something?” I shoot back with a scowl. “I thought
you were some kind of psychopath.”

My frown deepens, as I consider whether he might in fact be a psychopath. "

― M.A. George , Aqua

70 " I felt that the magical people must be in the hidden back roads and dusty cubby holes of life; on highways, in hostels, and in shabby, smoky cafes. These enchanting people are in trees, around fires and under hand-knit hats and street lamps reflecting gold on rain soaked pavement. They dance while others dangle; they vibrantly sing the songs that get jumbled and stuck in the subconscious of others who only wish to catch tune. They are the rare ones whose uncommon experiences touch your heart through just a wink of their eye, the stories stitched in the holes of their shoes, invoking a longing for the unknown, taking others to a place of missing what they've never even had -- they do not settle, they do not compromise. "

― Jackie Haze , Borderless

71 " All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn’t, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness. "

72 " This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword. "

― S. Alexander O'Keefe , The Return of Sir Percival: Guinevere's Prayer

73 " Trolls must continually feed their bottomless need, so be strong and patiently wait out their fires of hatred for eventually they eat their own. "

― L.M. Fields

74 " Most people think that love doesn’t stand the test of time – that it is eternal only as long as it lasts – but love is an unquenchable flame. It is only the fires of momentary desire that burn too fast and go out far too quickly without leaving behind a single trace. "

― Mirella Muffarotto , Be You

75 " Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it’s my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on? "

― Jinat Rehana Begum , First Fires

76 " When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to “please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions. "

― , A Blue One

77 " Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. "

― Patrick Rothfuss , The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

78 " Elodin pointed down the street. " What color is that boy's shirt?" " Blue." " What do you mean by blue? Describe it." I struggled for a moment, failed. " So blue is a name?" " It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself." My head was swimming by this point. " I still don't understand." He laid a hand on my shoulder. " Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating." He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. " But there are other ways to understanding!" he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. " Look!" he shouted tilting his head back. " Blue! Blue! Blue! "

79 " So blue is a name?'
'It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As humans have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest of hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words tat will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is te fire itself.'
My head was swimming at this point. 'I still don't understand.'
He laid a hand on my shoulder. 'Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.' He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. 'But there are other ways of understanding!' he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still lauging. 'Look!' he shouted tilting his head back. 'Blue! Blue! Blue! "

― Patrick Rothfuss , The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)

80 " Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough to speak the truth; that it is bravery enough. Every mountain leveled to the ground, every forest burned, every man, woman, and child who lost their shanties to arsonist fires were defended to the heavens—with words. "

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