The Fire Quotes

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

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.

...I seem to want the things I can't have. Occasionally, when something is finally attainable, the chase appears to be over and the fire burns out.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.

You never have to advertise a fire.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

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.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

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

For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

The fire of love and the cold of time, deprive my sweet love of his peace of mind.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Genius is initiative on fire.

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.

Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.

Chase after the truth like all hell.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

The day's at end and there's nowhere to go, Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying; Get up and once again politely lying Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

If you do your work, eventually there will be a spark. A fire. A blaze.