Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Glasgow

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Emily Bronte

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire

John Glover

All the fire was out at that point and we went into the mop up stage to try and salvage the homeowner's stuff and prevent further water and smoke damage.

All these hoodlums see others setting fires and say they can do it, too.

Joseph Williams

All the recurring fires have been small and very much expected.

Thomas Hardy

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be - and whenever I look up, there you shall be

Hermann Hesse

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Henry Vaughan

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Hayley Williams

My hair is made of actual fire, you guys.

Hayley Williams

we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better.

Heraclitus

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire

Heraclitus

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

Heraclitus

The phases of fire are craving and satiety.

Heraclitus

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire.

Heraclitus

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

Khaled Hosseini

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

Khalil Gibran

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

Norman Mailer

I guess all that's left is to love the fire.

Omar Khayyam

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Michael Buckley

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

Michael Grant

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

Ted Strickland

If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.

Ted Cruz

The whole world`s on fire.

Theodore Roethke

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

Malcolm Turnbull

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

Harvey Mackay

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.