Quotes on Fire

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

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?

Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.

Paper Matches My aunts washed dishes while the uncles squirted each other on the lawn with garden hoses. Why are we in here, I said, and they are out there? That’s the way it is, said Aunt Hetty, the shriveled-up one. I have the rages that small animals have, being small, being animal. Written on me was a message, “At Your Service,” like a book of paper matches. One by one we were taken out and struck. We come bearing supper, our heads on fire.

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

All you have is your fire _x000D_ And the place you need to reach _x000D_ Don't you ever tame your demons _x000D_ But always keep them on a leash

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.