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under fire

«Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.»
«Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.»
«Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.»
Author: Leon Trotsky | Keywords: securely, under fire
«Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?»
«Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.»
«Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.»
«Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds»
«All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.»
«You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.»
«The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.»