Quotes about fire
fire house lawyer
The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft." Alan King
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world. Charles Dudley Warner
fire skins spirituality
Under the skin, intense fires burn. Charles de Lint
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Charles Caleb Colton
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. Charles Dickens
fire wish mastery
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire mark malice
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. Charles Simmons
fire music-is stills
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Alan Jackson
fire should-have skulls
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m. David Sedaris
fireworks
...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. David Mitchell
fire circles theatre
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats. David Tennant
fire light together
But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together. Buddy Rich
fire snow water
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. Buffalo Bill
fire poor-management acres
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
fire political wicked
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors. Chanakya
fire political ifs
Fire, even if put on head, burns only.
fire tree political
The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.
fire tree political
The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.
fire people dreamer
A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well. Charles Baudelaire
fire long caves
I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.
fire this-life walking
Walking through this life really is walking through fire. Chaka Khan
fire-extinguishers flames realizing
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
firefighter poetry enough
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. Charles Simic
fire greatest-victory tactics
If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory. Benjamin Netanyahu
fire house needs
If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out. Bob Riley
fire heaven muse
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. William Shakespeare
fire people giving
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody. Mark Cuban
fire water heat
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
fire pale gin
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
fire heretic
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.