Quotes about fire
fire coward crowns
Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. Samuel Johnson
fire everyday knows
... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day. Sam Altman
fire heaven storm
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. Robert Jordan
fire making-love ifs
If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer. Rodney Dangerfield
fire wife making-love
Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.
fire humanity democracy
In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. Roberto Unger
fire evil being-thankful
Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command. Robert Southey
fire tools sticks
Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! Sarah Orne Jewett
fire taught novel
The fire burns as the novel taught it how. Wallace Stevens
fire secret veins
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire. Virgil
fire snow pissed-off
Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter -- Warren Ellis
fire may quench
I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze. Vincent Van Gogh
fire soul burning
One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.
fire tragedy heroic
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Virginia Woolf
fire vision sun
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. William Blake
fire imagination romance
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. Samuel Richardson
fire genius driving-fast
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
fire immortal composing
Composing mortals with immortal fire. W. H. Auden
fire joy heaven
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. William Cowper
fire mind fanatics
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.
firearms
The presence of a firearm makes us all safer. Wayne LaPierre
firefighter design fickle
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. Tyra Banks
fire littles taste
In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good. Tim Cahill
fire imagination soul
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination. Thomas Kinkade
firefighter effort safe
Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe. Thomas Carper
fire care guarding
[When you're on fire] it feels like nobody's out there, you're playing by yourself. You don't care how good a defender is guarding you. Vince Carter
fire hazards ashes
The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. Horace
fire giving woe
Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. Herman Melville
fire bird flying
I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again. Henry David Thoreau
firefly bogs natural
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.
fire weather use
Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?
fire inspire soul
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
fire water elements
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element. Jeremy Collier