Sensibility Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

Fire
Fire In The Heavens

Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,
thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble, fire that fills
the breathless hour that lives in fire alone.

This valley, long ago the patient bed
of floods that carv'd its antient amplitude,
in stillness of the Egyptian crypt outspread,
endures to drown in noon-day's tyrant mood.

Behind the veil of burning silence bound,
vast life's innumerous busy littleness
is hush'd in vague-conjectured blur of sound
that dulls the brain with slumbrous weight, unless

some dazzling puncture let the stridence throng
in the cicada's torture-point of song. — Christopher John Brennan

We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention — Diane Ackerman

crapulent buffoon with the IQ of a tampon. — John Niven

Together we can build the people's Church, a true Church. Not just a hierarchy, or a building, but a real change inside people. — Rigoberta Menchu

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic. — Pharoahe Monch

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward. — Peter Greenaway

If she loved them, if she loved anything, it was because it burned. — Amy Zhang

Just because you blocked the memory of me out of your mind doesn't mean you blocked the memory of me out of your heart — Colleen Hoover

Death is what makes life possible. It's the balance, Meridian. There always has to be balance. — Amber Kizer

If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection? — Wole Soyinka

If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff. — Denis Parsons Burkitt