Quotes About Fire Pits

#1. I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.

Mark Helprin

#2. You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Carl Hiaasen

#3. The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

Learned Hand

#4. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Such force demands an equal response, and Jesus is going to make war on everything that hinders love, with his eyes blazing fire.

Lou Engle

#5. You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.

R. Scott Bakker

#7. My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.

Brad Pitt

#8. I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

Smokey Robinson

#9. Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

Krishna Das

#10. Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

Ramit Sethi

#11. I don't think that there's much hiding that actors can do. If you're doing good work, you're showing a part of yourself to someone.

Kristen Stewart

#12. To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

Dogen

#13. I do not understand "damned." You are. And because you are, you can walk where you will, into peace, oblivion, or pits of fire, but you will always choose.

Katherine Arden