Top 66 Can Start A Fire Quotes
#1. Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.
Matt Damon
#2. We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.
Neil Jackson
#3. We each have a spark of life inside of us, that can start a fire. You can choose to burn down a room or to brighten it with light.
Jose N. Harris
#4. Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.
Jodi Picoult
#5. He groaned a little and pulled his mouth free, pressing it against her forehead, then her cheeks.
"I was going to start a fire ---"
He smiled down at her. "You did.
Terry Spear
#6. never use a halogen light bulb, as it could start a fire.
Jonny Staples
#7. The wrong place to start is to hire familiar people who are in your comfort zone - good buddies, but not the best in their skill set. Such people are difficult to fire and hard to manage.
Henry Kressel
#8. Take a soldier and put him right in front of a cannon in a battle and fire it at him, and he'll go on hoping, but read out a certain death sentence to that same soldier, and he'll go mad, or start to weep.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#9. I wondered if I should start a small fire in Percy Jackson's sink, perhaps burn some bandages in thanks, but I decided that might strain that Jackson's hospitality.
Rick Riordan
#10. Once Charles arrived, Franny would start laughing the way she had when she was twenty-four, and the rest of them could start setting one another on fire for all she cared. That's what best friends did: ruin people for everyone else.
Emma Straub
#11. I do everything myself, from engine start to engine shutdown. In a war, I will face alone the missiles and the flak and the small-arms fire over the front lines. If I die, I will die alone.
Richard Bach
#12. History shows that it takes only a spark to start a fire that cannot be easily checked. The Seven Stages of War started with the outrage of one leader.
Joelle Charbonneau
#13. When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
Haruki Murakami
#14. Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.
Sarah Mlynowski
#15. Some people say love is a losing game, you start with fire and you lose the flame. The ashes smolder, but the warmth's soon gone, you end up cold and lonely on your own.
Bob Seger
#17. Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.
Martina Mcbride
#18. This is boring, my brain said; nothing to see here. Let's do something else. Let's start a fire.
Robert Brockway
#19. Michael will go ballistic if you start a fire up here again." "Michael needs to switch to decaf.
Brigid Kemmerer
#20. Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
Edward Abbey
#21. I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appeared a fire,
To burn the errors that these Princes hold
Against her Maiden truth.
William Shakespeare
#22. He put a quarter in and dialed. "You fuckin' proud of yourself?" he said. "Don't you fuck with me, kid. You think I won't break into your place and start a fire? You ready to watch every single thing you love fucking burn?
Isaac Oliver
#23. I want to know why a fire glows, and why flame dust kills. I want my children or theirs ... to know what makes this radio work, ... and someday this rocket. I want to know much-more than I can learn, no doubt; but if I can start my people learning for themselves ...
Hal Clement
#24. a small spark can start a great fire
Emmet Fox
#25. Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.
A.P.
#26. She blew a light and watched a fire start. They would never leave her, now. I have no mouth, the city thought as she went to sleep, but I could kiss you.
Jason Heller
#27. I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.
Charles Bukowski
#28. Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it's show time and you're at your best.
Robin S. Sharma
#29. We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.
Jason Chaffetz
#31. Even if hope is just a low ember at night, in the morning you can still start a fire.
Andrew Peterson
#32. I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'
Rainbow Rowell
#34. You can't manufacture love: you can't build it back up, like a fire. You start out with a certain amount, and then you hope it is strong enough and lasting enough to sustain itself against the hard winters, and the assaults of time.
Rick Bass
#35. You can't start a fire
Worrying 'bout your little world falling apart
This gun's for hire
Even if we're just dancing in the dark
Bruce Springsteen
#36. You could start a fire with the heat between you two."
"You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.
Michelle Hodkin
#37. Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first time
for somebody else.
Shakieb Orgunwall
#38. Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.
Robinson Jeffers
#39. Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.
Dan Fogelberg
#40. Stroke the fire, prod the tiger. Hate me. Hate me like you did that night. Let's start at the beginning, and end it right here, annihilate everything.
Annihilate me.
Aleksandr Voinov
#41. If you're going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?
Tom Douglas
#42. When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.
Sun Tzu
#43. But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Benjamin Whorf
#44. One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.
Gail Thackray
#45. He didn't like having to start the fire again, that was the source of this small sadness. You get tired of these endless beginnings.
Denis Johnson
#46. I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work.
David O. Russell
#47. What I didn't like was how people talked to me
now that I was no longer single; they were nicer.
Men who never looked at me would start up a conversation,
like I was suddenly some safer form of fire.
Ada Limon
#49. That's right! Run! Because if you don't, that fire is just waiting to finish the job off!" When the last one disappears from view, I turn and start walking back towards the hills. I need to find my friends.
Pittacus Lore
#50. War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular.
T.H. White
#51. So we can't start a fire. We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.
Michelle Hodkin
#52. When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire
Stephen R. Donaldson
#53. Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.
Isaac Asimov
#54. Choose wisely
From those who start
A fire in your heart.
Some may burn you to shreds,
While you were looking for warmth.
Saiber
#55. Perhaps the village was really a great game board, with the squares neatly marked out, and I had been moved past the square which read 'Fire; return to Start,' and was now on the last few squares, with only one move to go to reach home.
Shirley Jackson
#56. Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.
Jon Foreman
#57. You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right?
Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#58. I learned how to argue. They called it 'Debate'. I learned how to worship. I learned how to become an eager worker and a passive consumer.
But I didn't learn anything practical, like how to purify water, build a home, start a fire, grow food, or survive without the help of corporations.
Joss Sheldon
#59. It would be a far greater sin for you to drift along in a haze of moderation than to start a fire or two. Go fuck some things up.
Cary Tennis
#60. The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#61. His fingers tighten, drawing my leg open so that ours knees touch and he leans closer to me. "Not at all," he whispers in a spine-tingling purr, eyes alight with secret sparkle. "It should scare you. It should scare you and enliven you. It should make you want to start a fire. Because you can.
A.L. Davroe
#62. Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.
Cassandra Duffy
#63. We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Billy Joel
#64. You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
Leymah Gbowee
#65. Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.
Jean Chatzky
#66. And when things start to go wrong, a good boss doesn't just fire everybody and start over.
Lisi Harrison
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