Fire Quotes
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Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?
Louise Rennison -
And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy careTurn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare.
John Dryden
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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare -
Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
Mike Tyson -
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
Amy Lowell -
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
Tertullian -
My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.
Adoniram Judson
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On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
Ben Aaronovitch -
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 -
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
Barack Obama -
I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.
Johnny Unitas -
As a competitor, you want to be out there in the fire with your teammates.
Brock Osweiler -
Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
W. H. Auden
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.
Allen Tate -
We learn from a passage in Strabo, that it was a dogma of the Gaulish Druids that the universe was immortal, but destined to survive catastrophes both of fire and water. That this doctrine was communicated to them from the East, with much of their learning, cannot be doubted.
Charles Lyell -
What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?
William Butler Yeats -
Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
William Golding -
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?
Isaac Newton
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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 -
Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
Paul Stanley Kiss -
I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.
Kyle Shewfelt -
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey