The Fire Quotes

Yes, I thought I'd try electrocution next. Since a bomb, a fire, Vinco's knife and a brief encounter with outer space didn't kill me.

You should know what happens when you play with fire, Cahill. Eventually, you'll get burned.

Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire.

I was a pizza-delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn't fire me. I was the only person they had working there.

Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.’ ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes.

The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes.

If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.

We carry the flame for all to see, the fire and passion of what we can be.

I was cold and you were fire, and I never knew how the pyre could be burning on the edge of an ice field.

It might go down better than appearing as a giant reptile encased in a ball of fire and forcing yourself on her.' 'WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BRING THAT UP?

Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!

Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!

New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.

The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.

Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water.

You could start a fire with the heat between you two. You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.

Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.

It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.