Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lenny Kravitz

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Terry Pratchett

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

Terry Brooks

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.” He smiled...

Terry Brooks

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Tennessee Williams

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee Williams

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Simone Elkeles

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

Simone de Beauvoir

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Simone Weil

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Simon Hoggart

Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.

Rick Riordan

And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire,” Leo volunteered. “Then he can be fire.” The thought of a blazing satyr screaming, “Die, scumbag!” as he attacked Gaea was almost enough to make Piper laugh— almost.

Richard Branson

It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

Sonya Hartnett

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

Thomas Merton

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

Rau'Shee Warren

I put a lot of fire in my punches.

Rajneesh

Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

Thomas Jefferson

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

Robert Herrick

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Robert Musil

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.

Rob Corddry

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

William Booth

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

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.

William Booth

Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

William Butler Yeats

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

William Butler Yeats

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.

William Butler Yeats

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

Winston Churchill

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.

William Matthews

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 Wordsworth

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

Saint Augustine

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.