Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
Mark Twain
Related Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. MARK TWAIN Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself MARK TWAIN Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those f... MIRANDA JULY The fire is so big and our resources are so few, we can only fight the fire on our terms. We're cons... DAVE WELLS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness i... BUDDHA Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself PATRICK ROTHFUSS What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the ... MAX MULLER The things that last..the things that are eternal are the things that pass through judgment and fire... KIM BOOHER I think I was the only one that looked upset. It didn't look like we had the fire to make a run. BOBBY SANDQUIST Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD My understanding is they're focusing on everyone who was in the building that day. And if someone ha... DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ... TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. VAL KILMER Africans are not the only ones poorly housed in Europe. Why is it only the houses of the Africans th... HOULEYMACOU DIALLO Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a t... THOMAS KEATING Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What... KNUT HAMSUN The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have. MATTHEW DESMOND And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th... JOHN DONNE You can look across the state and what may normally be a fire that didn't escape, that a landowner c... JAMIE KRITZER Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only... FRANK HERBERT The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us... BIBLE When you find that you are on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain STEVE J. LEATHERWOOD Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who w... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at ... JACK GILBERT You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One t... MICHAEL CAINE Your words are fire giants besieging the Asgard of my mind. BRIAN CLEVINGER The only hitch to the cease-fire is that the government says that if the rebels fire on them they wi... WALTER RODGERS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss... POPE GREGORY I Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most [borrowed from Mark Twain] GERARD WAY Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE! SHANNON L. ALDER They tell us the only way to move on is to forget. “Forgive,” they say. Realise ... KAMAND KOJOURI In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature... DAN WELLS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She smiled for the first time, and he almost had to look away, as if something that nice didn’t be... JAMES DASHNER Look at the stars! look, look up at the skies!/ O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! / Th... GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Look for the fire and put it off. Stop worrying about the smoke SOTONYE ANGA A friend saw him on fire and came and put him out. That's the only thing that keep the fire from bur... FRANK LEVIER SR When you are good at despising little things, you are likely to throw away the tiny match stick that... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There's heavy fire damage to the third floor, ... There are multiple ceilings and two roofs to get t... CHUCK NORRIS I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. DIONNE WARWICK O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of hea... EMANUEL SWEDENBORG Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire? CAROLINA MARIA DE JESUS For all that she lacked your fire. PATRICK ROTHFUSS It's a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy wants to kill you, he says ... LENORE LOOK Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosoph... MARGARET ATWOOD They've yet to break through and catch fire. It doesn't look good for the Democrats. BRUCE RANSOM There are certain key words you look for, in the listings. 'Jenny Agutter' is the big one. Agutter i... MORAN, CAITLIN The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap... RACHEL ZOE The cook doesn't want to be locked away in the kitchen anymore. He or she wants to be around the gue... RUTH REICHL But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. MARK TWAIN After 10 years, the family moved and the wall was painted over by the new residents. I wish the prev... KARL HEPNER Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a lit... BIBLE Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century. BOB NEWHART The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire,that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguish... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature,
That fashions all her works in high relief,
An... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But the calls that are the worst for us are the malicious false calls where someone calls the fire d... CAPTAIN MCKENZIE But the calls that are the worst for us are the malicious false calls where someone calls the fire d... CAPTAIN CHARLES MCKENZIE Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never ... GEORGE MEREDITH Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never co... GEORGE MEREDITH The fire was pushing higher and higher on the fire escape. The flames kind of trapped them in this l... JAMES FARRELL I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that t... SAMUEL JOHNSON It is a heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in it WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Fire Station 12 is a beautiful reminder of the heritage that is the Knoxville Fire Department's, ...... CARLOS PEREZ 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called shee... RILEY CARNEY Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of par... MARK TWAIN And because when all the words of promises and memories fade, these words that are written are the o... DIANA ROSE MORCILLA A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on... HARUKI MURAKAMI Jealousy and Greed are like a small fire in a wood it can soon turn into a fire out of control and l... GARY F EVANS... Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void... PAZARIA SMITH Fire . . . Does that light by itself? TSUKUMIZU The percentage is reduced each year, until after five years the fire department is able to continue ... JACKIE VAUGHN Fire will save the Clan," she murmured, and Fireheart remembered the mysterious prophecy that he had... ERIN HUNTER Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it... STEPHEN R. COVEY We live in a society where everyone has labeled themselves or others into a certain category dependi... ANDONI GARCIA Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE “When the next house is on fire, 'tis high time to look to your own.” ESAN MAGAZINE My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. The... ANDREA GIBSON Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments. JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated, BILL BRADLEY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... It doesn't look that bad from the outside. But inside, the water damage is incredible. The fire depa... KARL BUCH We would not no that if we look at a candle it is kept alive by the richness of air .We do not even ... GARY F EVANS... You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My cat brought me a toy. I thanked her and threw it. She sat there gave me a look that made me reali... DAN HARMON I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that... CHARLOTTE BRONTë We are trying to set up a budget that you can address, that you can look at and see where things are... MANAGER HENRY DURANT We are working very closely with the District of Oregon. The investigation remains active and ongoin... EMILY LANGLIE I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are teste... CASSANDRA CLARE We've been through the fire and things are just starting to shine. BYRON ALLEN
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