The Fire Quotes

Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever you want, it is happiness, it is another one of the ways to enter fire.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time.

Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you"

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.

Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

Contraception leads to more babies being born out of wedlock, like fire extinguishers lead to more fires.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him.

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

I like being able to fire people.

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?