By The Fire Quotes

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

All the fatt's in the fire.

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.

Remember, girl on fire,” he says, “I'm still betting on you.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

I’m stopped by the sight of Finnick kissing Peeta.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

"I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur."

Among us there is no place for the lukewarm. Humble yourself, and Christ will kindle in you again the fire of love.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

One hundred rounds do not constitute fire power. One hit constitutes fire power.

It is not the tempest, nor the earthquake, nor the fire, but the still small voice of the Spirit that carries on the glorious work of saving souls.

There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed. Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.