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  • I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. -- Leon Trotsky
  • You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. -- Quentin Crisp
  • It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. -- Judy Blume
  • I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes. -- Shane Black
  • I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire. -- Jack Kemp
  • My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. -- Joshua Chamberlain
  • The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory. -- Ambrose Burnside
  • If you're crying under fire, then you wasn't built for war. If a pimp took your girl, then your girl was never yours. -- MF Grimm
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  • You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it. -- Donald Trump
  • Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip. -- Jay Leno
  • Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop. -- Winston Churchill
  • Marine and Army women have deployed with infantry units in Iraq and Afghanistan in what's called female engagement teams, going into villages, talking with women and sometimes coming under fire. -- Renee Montagne
  • Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • Hillary Clinton is under fire from Latinos, specifically online. This comes from a recent blog post by Clinton's campaign that was meant to reach out to Latinos. Instead, it offended many people. -- Ari Shapiro
  • I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something. -- Winston Churchill
  • Infantry must move forward to close with the enemy. It must shoot in order to move.... To halt under fire is folly. To halt under fire and not fire back is suicide. Officers must set the example -- George S. Patton
  • I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed. -- George Packer
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  • I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality. -- Walter Truett Anderson
  • There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, integrity and authenticity (people don't like fakes), a vision that inspires others, and a stellar reputation. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
  • Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it. -- Herman Melville
  • The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices. -- Michelle Malkin
  • [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. -- Judy Blume
  • The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down. -- Gerard Way
  • Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. -- Elsa Maxwell
  • One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.' -- Tom Everett Scott
  • The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. -- George Edward Woodberry
  • I'd like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I'd like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork. -- Laurie Graham
  • Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch. -- Douglas Brinkley
  • Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars. -- Camilla Lackberg
  • I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. -- Amy Lowell
  • There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire. -- Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense. -- James T. Walsh
  • In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children. -- Oliver North
  • The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later. -- Ernie Pyle
  • I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. -- Geraldine Brooks
  • A fire lit under my ass? Yeah, that's true. No time to waste. -- Madonna Ciccone
  • Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone. -- Bob Teague
  • I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people. -- Desmond Tutu
  • The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. -- Thomas Merton
  • Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. -- Stephen Covey
  • The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. -- Winston Churchill
  • Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control. -- Vera Nazarian
  • Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again. -- John Masefield
  • If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire. -- Michael Sims
  • The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other. -- Ronda Rousey
  • Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God. -- Thomas Harris
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