Fire Quotes

• The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Flames
  • Warmth

• For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.

  

  Will Self
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Determined

• Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

  

  John Wesley
  • People
  • Fire

• For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Country
  • Search
  • Europe

• You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over.

  

  James Carville
  • House
  • Fire

• All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Remember
  • Regret
  • Thrust

• There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Fire
  • Fingers

• Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

  

  Les Brown
  • Life
  • School
  • Job

• A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Suffering
  • Littles
  • Rivers

• Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Poetry

• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong.

  

  Barry Pain
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Pray

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

  

  Aleksis Kivi
  • Mind
  • Love
  • Sky

• 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.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Taken
  • Faces
  • Equal

• I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg...

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Fire
  • Stage
  • Caught on

• If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Wind
  • Choose
  • Landscape

• The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Game
  • Running
  • Boat

• My favorite splurges are cheese pizza with hot peppers, Haagen-Dazs maple-walnut ice cream, Giant brand ice cream sandwiches, and fire sticks - those hot candies the size of a three-inch ruler.

  

  Lindsay Wagner
  • Fire
  • Pizza

• I encourage people that if this really lights a fire for them, go for it.

  

  Doug LaMalfa
  • People
  • Lights
  • Encourage

• No matter how unjustly you’ve been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you’ll get burned.

  

  Anita Stansfield
  • Fighting
  • Fire
  • Unjustly

• O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Men
  • Light
  • Son

• Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Want
  • House
  • Fire

• It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.

  

  Frank Black
  • Death
  • Song
  • Moon

• I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Pretty
  • Dirty
  • Breakfast

• Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Feats
  • Coals
  • Fire Kings

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