Fire Steps Quotes

#1. The city has millions of stories that I don't know. Never did and never will.

John Joseph Adams

#2. I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

#3. In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Rumi

#4. Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

Matthew De Abaitua

#6. Truth-telling to Congress and the public is not disloyal in America: it is an expression of the higher loyalty officials owe to the Constitution, the rule of law, and the sovereign public. It is a courageous, patriotic, and effective way to serve our country. The time to speak out is now.

Daniel Ellsberg

#7. How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

Thomas Gray

#8. He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

Kim Newman

#9. Use your hater to make you greater!

Habeeb Akande

#10. I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. As I hold them in place, I can faintly hear Mo trying to reason with me. She sees the fire I have inside, the raw, poisonous hatred for what happened. I'm taking steps down a road and there is no turning back.

Jonas Lee

#12. It is through suffering that learning comes.

Aeschylus

#13. it offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient machines.

Simon Head

#14. I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

Simon Cowell

#15. Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Nostradamus

#16. I didn't say the things I said.

Yogi Berra

#17. My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls ...

Woody Guthrie

#18. It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

Edward Snowden

#19. Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

Carl Von Clausewitz