Quotes about fire
fire lasts bedtime
I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last. Veronica Roth
fire perfection littles
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. Richard Bach
fire house vision
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. Robert Frost
fire giving be-careful
Be careful how quickly you give away your fire. Robert Bly
fire doubt invention
Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. Thomas Huxley
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
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 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
fire water plans
So then I though I'd make some plans, but Fire thought she'd really rather be Water instead... Tori Amos
fire normal routine
My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day. Vera Wang
fire facts lips
No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips. Vance Havner
fire preacher sermons
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the 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 orthodoxy hell
Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell. Robert Green Ingersoll
fire long giving
Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.
fire water return
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! Rudyard Kipling
fire pieces doe
A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
firefighter people police
When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again. Rudy Giuliani
fire people house
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning. Sandra Cisneros
fire soldier desire
It is not the desire of new acquisitions, but the glory of conquests, that fires the soldier's breast; as indeed the town is seldom worth much, when it has suffered the devastations of a siege. Samuel Johnson
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.
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