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Familiar Quotations

Igniting

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.–Rusty Berkus

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.–Charles Sawyer

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won t, you most assuredly won t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.–Denis Waitley

Igniting – "Fire"

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.–Anonymous

Fire and sea and woman, three evils.–Desiderius Erasmus

Fire is never a gentle master.–Proverb

How can you put out a fire set on a cart-load of firewood with only a cup of water?–Proverb

Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the babbler.–Steele

Igniting – "Heat"

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, serious, as an ass?–Michel Eyguem de Montaigne

Igniting – "Kindling"

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.–Anonymous

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Igniting 1
• Igniting – "Fire" 1
• Igniting – "Heat" 1
• Igniting – "Kindling" 1
• Igniting – "Light" 1
• Use in Literature 3
• Igniting 3
• Igniting – "Light" 9
• Igniting – "Water" 11
• Igniting – "Wood" 11
• Nonfiction Usage 13
• Script Usage 13
• Presidential Usage 13
• Journalism Usage 13
• Governmental Usage 16
• Patent Usage 16
• Bibliographic Usage 42
• Encyclopedic Usage 49
• Lexicographic Usage 56
• Index 99