The Fire Quotes
Signs of a poorly understood but treatable house fire requires action, not inaction.
A man would rather be trampled by elephants on fire than tell you he's just not that into you.
at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.
Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.
I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy.
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.
There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.
I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know.
There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.
People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.
Love is like fire. Wounds of fire are hard to bear; harder still are those of love.
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.
Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
So light a fire!" Harry choked. "Yes...of course...but there's no wood!" ... "HAVE YOU GONE MAD!" Ron bellowed. "ARE YOU A WITCH OR NOT!
He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon.
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!
And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.
There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.
