The Fire Quotes

The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

We are basically storytellers, descendants of the old men who sat around the fire and told us legends, fairytales, exploits, or maybe just how funny Og looked when he fell into the tar pit.

Passion is the fire, enthusiasm and courage that an individual feels when she is doing something she loves while accomplishing worthy ends, something that satisfies her deepest needs.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Forever," Edward echoed in my ear. I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn't have noticed.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

Marriage is designed to pull dysfunction to the surface of our lives, set it on fire and help us grow.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Before I became famous I used to think there's no smoke without fire. But believe me, there can be a fire without smoke.

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days.

Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire.

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.

The ego is not harmonious with happiness and spiritual development. In the process of spiritual transformation we refine it. In the fire of love we melt the ego down.

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

His speech is a burning fire.

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire.