Fir Quotes

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

Fire is never a gentle master

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation.

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

What maters most is how well you walk through the fire.

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.

...The city fireman-the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square, The arriving engines, the hoarse shouts, the nimble stepping and daring,The strong command through the fire-trumpets, the falling in line,the rise and fall of the arms forcing the water,The slender, spasmic, blue-white jets-the bringing to bear of the hooks and ladders, and their execution,The crash and cut away of connecting wood-work, or through floors, if the fire smoulders under them,The crowd with their lit faces, watching-the glare and dense shadows;....

THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highwayWith a silence deep and white.Every pine and fir and hemlockWore ermine too dear for an earl,And the poorest twig on the elm-treeWas ridged inch deep with pearl.

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.

The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Everything I do now is a first.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

People are always so surprised when they meet me.

Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.

You have to be odd to be number one.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I am very fired up to run in New York.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.

If you're not first, you're last.

I put a lot of fire in my punches.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The first draft of anything is shit.

If you don't win, you're going to be fired.

If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

The first step is you have to say that you can.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait.

I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns you more than him.

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people.

Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job.

There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.

i can't understand her well son, you might as well try to understand the sun.

derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Get there first with the most.