Quotes about fire
fire way reason
I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings. Robinson Jeffers
fire soul sparks
For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire. Robert Musil
fire june three
If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match. Rob Corddry
fire reason inference
Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top. Richard Whately
fire glasses cups
When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit. And nearly choked to death. It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me. "Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing. Viktoria grinned. "Vodka." I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka." Apparently not. Richelle Mead
fire rose burning
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.
fire air water
We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle. Russell Banks
fire temptation might
To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. Thomas Secker
fire liberty matter
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? Thomas Sowell
fire coal causes
The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments. Richard Price
fire world next
The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world. Richard Rohr
firefly night world
This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did. Sarah Dessen
fire firsts walks
Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize... Rohinton Mistry
fire people catholic
While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire. Sara Paretsky
fire mold hammers
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. Samuel Rutherford
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 different fool
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord. William Booth
fire soul baptism
Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
fire soul looks
Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
fire chaos
I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head. William Butler Yeats
fire mountain decay
Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
fire filling lighting
Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.
fire politics limits
The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. Winston Churchill
fire quality frost
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary. William Matthews
fire faithful may
That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire. Saint Augustine
fire each-day littles
The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected. Xenophanes
fire three banking
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. Will Rogers
fire play mind
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires. W. E. B. Du Bois
fire house relieved
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire. Wendell Berry
fire desire
Desire attained is not desire, But as the cinders of the fire. Walter Raleigh
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