Fire Quotes

4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination… — Unknown Author
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it. — Unknown Author
The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds… — Thomas Aquinas
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it… — Richard Baxter
Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful… — Saint Francis de Sales
Their bodies will be raised from the dead as vessels for the soul-vessels of wrath. The soul will breathe hell-fire, and smoke and coal will… — John Bunyan
A person may say I am not much concerned how long I stay in purgatory, provided I may come to eternal life. Let no one… — Caesarius of Arles
The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. — Cyprian
A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze,… — Adolf Bastian
[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one part of air… — Vannoccio Biringuccio
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of… — Georg Ernst Stahl
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master! — Thomas Carlyle
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring… — Lucretius
Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what… — Isaac Newton
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies… — Ezra Pound
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire. — Thomas Carlyle
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. — Empedocles
Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at… — L. J. Smith
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. — Andy Goldsworthy
The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even… — Ernie Pyle
I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in… — Mike Weir
In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right,… — Edward Albert
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned… — Tahir Shah

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