Quotes about fire
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 may losing
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. William Wordsworth
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 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 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 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.
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 suffering remains
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
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 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