The Fire Quotes

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.

The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars.

Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

If you are flammable and have legs, you are not blocking a fire exit.

A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.

Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

Is not light grander than fire?

Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.

I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.

Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away.

Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them.