Call Fire

Famous quotes containing the words call and/or fire:

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)