Fire Quotes
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How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
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The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects.
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Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say 'I know what I am doing' at critical moments.
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When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !
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The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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You may fire when you are ready Gridley.
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Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
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You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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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?
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Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.
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I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!
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I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
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And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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Fire the doubters out of your life.
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I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
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Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
