Fire Quotes · Page 66

There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.

— Philippe Petit

God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.

— Hafez

When there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire.

— Anonymous

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

— Timothy Keller

“I don't want to go viral, I want to set hearts on fire.”

— Coco J. Ginger

Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire!

— Anonymous

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

— Andy Goldsworthy

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

— John Lyly

In business terms, if you take over a company and oust its CEO or fire a divisional chief, you run the place.…

— Michael Wolff

Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of…

— William J. Seymour

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the…

— Charles Churchill

“The thought brought a ghost of a smile to his lips. Winter evoked primordial feelings of seeking shelter and fire. The realization…

— Jaime Allison Parker

If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the…

— Margaret Atwood

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and…

— Hedy Lamarr

Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no…

— Dana Gould

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant…

— Sarah Wayne Callies

A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given…

— Art Linkletter

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get…

— Aaron Allston

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for…

— Robert Higgs

“There we go,” he said cheerfully, after he’d started up a fire. The two puppets, still huddled in his pockets, woke up…

— Zeinab Alayan

Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth…

— Plato

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle.…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Standing under the shelter of a cedar tree, I stared at the fire crackling as it burned through the fallen logs and…

— Susan L. Marshall

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.

— Robert Frost

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

— Tupac Shakur

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of…

— Joseph Addison

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

— Henry Knox

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

— Fernand Leger

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

— Louisa May Alcott

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.

— Nora Roberts

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

— Nicholas Evans

“My body is on fire and he is the oxygen keeping it going.”

— Taylor Thompson

“Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.”

— Rick Riordan

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

— Richard Kadrey

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

— Diana Vreeland

“From a distance, the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm looked okay.”

— Steven Magee

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

— Douglas MacArthur

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

— Wendell Berry