Quotes on Fire

Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.

There is no fire like passion_x000D_ _x000D_ No crime like hatred,_x000D_ _x000D_ No sorrow like separation,_x000D_ _x000D_ No sickness like hunger,_x000D_ _x000D_ And no joy like the joy of freedom.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.