Fire Quotes

• I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.

  

  John le Carre
  • People
  • Job
  • Fire

• We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Suicide

• With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Projects
  • Frustrating
  • Hoping

• Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Simple
  • Bible
  • Mysterious

• We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • People
  • Fire
  • Pool

• Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Time
  • Great
  • Business

• I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.

  

  J. Chapman
  • World
  • Heart
  • Jesus

• A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Single
  • King
  • Tree

• Dess shook her head. "Before he walked off, Rex said for you to wait. He said it's totally important you don't touch Angie until he comes back. and he said that if you were a pain about it, I get to hit you with that." She pointed to where the darkling had flung Flabbergasted Supernumerary Mathematician, its tip blackened by ichor and fire. "So, go ahead.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Important
  • Pain
  • Waiting

• Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Singing
  • Deep

• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Art
  • Feeling

• 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

• Love sets fire to your schedule,And then calls an end to time.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time
  • Fire

• I could feel the heat of the fire coming up through the bottom of my pant leg.

  

  Matt Willis Busted
  • Fire
  • Heat

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fire
  • Closest

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

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Fire
  • Fingers

• Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire 'Love will find out the way.'

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • May
  • Dream
  • Shadow

• I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Important
  • Single

• I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing... like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

  

  James Turrell
  • Fire

• Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Fear
  • Fire
  • Burned

• For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

  

  Henry Knox
  • Die
  • Care
  • Fire

• O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Kiss

• If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

  

  Michael Sims
  • Nothing
  • Creating
  • Under

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