Fire Quotes
We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just dirt, and maybe some yellow flowers.
We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.
The wound that's made by fire will heal, But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
Deep in the human heart The fire of justice burns; A vision of a world renewed Through radical concern.
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.
So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.
When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.
In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away
I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.
The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.
By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.
I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.