The Fire Quotes

It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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

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

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.

Wind indeed increases fire, but custom love.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Good governance is not fire-fighting or crisis-management. Instead of opting for ad-hoc solutions the need of the hour is to tackle the root cause of the problems.

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

I was full of fire when I was young. I wanted to attack anything.

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

To learn to read is to light a fire.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

The axe is the most important bush tool there is. Outside of fire, nothing may contribute to your comfort and leisure than a well chosen axe.

A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud continents of sunset-seas.

When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more important than the harnessing of fire.

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.