Fire Quotes

4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat… — Mike Tyson
His master’s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When… — Malcolm X
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is… — Philip Pullman
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with… — Abdul Kalam
Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot… — Richard Baxter
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must… — Richard Baxter
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. — Richard Sibbes
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do… — Richard Sibbes
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
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. — Thomas Carlyle
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out. — Heraclitus
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire — Heraclitus
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire. — Clive James
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage
Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air… — Jackie Stewart
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. — Harry Houdini
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick… — Harry Houdini
We all know that Washington families are making a tremendous commitment to winning the War on Terror. Tonight, more than 22,000 Washington state soldiers, sailors,… — Patty Murray
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be… — Stephen R. Donaldson
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with… — Akira Kurosawa
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming

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