The Fire Quotes

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.

Who needs to walk on fire, when you can walk on water with this site.

So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Burn pedants in pale fire. Accept no fashions. Be your own fashion. Do not rely on earlier triumphs. Be new at each appearance.

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

Composing mortals with immortal fire.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad.

Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire

When the hater's fire singes the hated, the hater has already been consumed.

Jealousy is the fire of envy that seeks to destroy another's beauty, rather than to create its own.

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

we, in that instant, lost, breathless to be witnesses, as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.

Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken.

Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?

Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was

I am thy father's spirit; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night And, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purg'd away.

If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.