Quotes about fire
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. Rudyard Kipling
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 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
fire today complaining
Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something! Steve Harvey
fire purpose excited
Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.
fire rose beats
Fire beats roses again. Suzanne Collins
firefly clouds lightning
Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs. Stephen King
fire littles deer
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.
fire-burning people building
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. Stephen Ambrose
fire victory wheels
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation. Thomas Merton
fire light elements
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity. Thomas Carlyle
fire light
Is not light grander than fire?
fire demon invention
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.
fire masters servant
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
fire way should
Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around. Tony Hsieh
fire people stories
I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. Steve Buscemi
fire breathe theory
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? Stephen Hawking
fire important lasts
Cease-fire is important, but it can last only for a very, very, very short time. Silvan Shalom
fire lasts burn-out
All fires burn out at last. Sigrid Undset
fire slumber ashes
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. Pierre Corneille
fire ego rope
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. Ramakrishna
fire one-day events
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
fire use temper
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
fire house looks
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