Fires'n Quotes

#1. The 'fires'n that produce thick, rarely innocent, often strategic smoke should therefore be scrutinized. they should be known and identified; and when they involve dishonesty, lies, or manipulation, they they should be ignored.

Tariq Ramadan

#2. When we learn to respond to each other rather than react, we will move much more quickly in our conflict toward resolution and reconciliation. Reactions only stoke the fires of conflict; responses, particularly godly ones, help us snuff out the conflict.

Matt Chandler

#3. Many fires burn below the surface.

Empedocles

#4. Kiss me again:
If I now wanted heat of youth, these fires,
In Priam's veins, would thaw his frozen blood,
Enabling him to get a second Hector
For the defence of Troy.

Phillip Massinger

#5. dozing on horseback
smoke form the tea-fires
drifts to the moon

Basho Matsuo

#6. And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires ... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does.

Elizabeth Smart

#8. There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days,
you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow

Barbara Claypole White

#9. Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

Craig Johnson

#10. Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows.

Robert Fortune

#11. 1000 mile road begins with a single step, the freedom road begins with a scream that fires the battle, and the greatness road begins with a question that fires the spark of the change.

Ammar Moussa

#12. Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.

Robin Oliveira

#13. The pyromaniacs of the Third Reich were now playing their final scene on the stage of the world: they who had set the world aflame were now perishing in their own fires.

Miklos Nyiszli

#14. When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

John Dryden

#15. Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it's my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on?

Jinat Rehana Begum

#16. Mark the spirit of invention everywhere, thy rapid patents, Thy continual workshops, foundries, risen or rising, See, from their chimneys how the tall flame-fires stream.

Walt Whitman

#17. Not that there wasn't still plenty of subduing to do here in North America. "Even within our own limits, the savage still lights his death fires, to appease the wrath of an idol," he points out. What's worse, to the "north, there is an immense region of palpable darkness." (Hi, Canada!)

Sarah Vowell

#18. Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit on the porch and sing them on mild evenings.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

Adam McKay

#20. Then come at once and pause for breath
In chasing wealth. Remembering death
And death's dark fires, mix, while you may,
Method and madness, work and play.
Folly is sweet, well-timed.

Horace

#21. In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

Edith Wharton

#22. We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Charles Handy

#23. There was a guy roasting chestnuts on the street corner, and the smell wafted over, hinting at the coming Winter, but in a good way, in the way that makes you think about Christmas and snow days and fires crackling away in fireplaces.

Sarah Dunn

#24. Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

Alan Sillitoe

#25. Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

William Congreve

#26. Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.

Ammar Moussa

#27. Dear, Mr. Ajax ... don't ye know ... the fires of Hell are stoked by righteous lawyers! Tis a fact it is. All that hot air ... How'd ya think they get that Brimstone so hot?
Old Tom Goodling from Angela's Coven

Bruce Jenvey

#28. An' right here I want to remark,' Bill went on, 'that that animal's familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an' immoral.'
'It knows for certain more'n a self-respectin' wolf ought to know,' Henry agreed

Jack London

#29. The fires of night
through distance dance
ghosts who still know how to sing

Tamara Rendell

#30. In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.

John Glover

#31. My soundless feet shall fly among the runners
Through the red thunders of a Zeppelin raid,
My still voice cheer the Anti-Aircraft gunners,
The fires shall glare - but I shall cast no shade.

Stella Benson

#32. Do not desperately seek refuge in heaven and delve in blissful ignorance; discover the fires and infernos of hell that have sprung inside of you.

Forrest Curran

#33. Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

A.E. Housman

#34. People die, sure," my mother was saying. "But it's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

Donna Tartt

#35. Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

Sam Carpenter

#36. Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Lord Byron

#37. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

Michael Bassey Johnson

#38. And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

William Shakespeare

#39. Seven deadly sins,
seven ways to win,
seven holy paths to hell,
and your trip begins
Seven downward slopes
seven bloodied hopes
seven are your burning fires,
seven your desires ...

Iron Maiden

#40. I don't approve of open fires. You can't think, or talk or even make love in front of a fireplace. All you can do is stare at it.

Rex Stout

#41. Writing is when I fly, writing is when I start fires. Writing is when I take death out of my left pocket, throw him against the wall and catch him as he bounces back.

Charles Bukowski

#42. When I was seven I believed in God so I told Him I was sorry about kicking my sister and to "please not condemn me to eternal suffering in the interminable fires of Perdition for my transgressions.

Emma Rose Kraus

#43. You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#45. If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither.

Zakariya Amataya

#46. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.

Various

#47. Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#48. I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Benedict Cumberbatch

#49. More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.

Julie Klam

#50. But you know, I'm the negative-Nancy, curmudgeon, glass-half-empty-with-a-leak-in-it guy - which is basically the fuel that fires me up anyway. Without that, we wouldn't have me.

Maynard James Keenan

#51. I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.

Frankie J. Grande

#52. In the unlikely event that she does escape me, I will inform you all. If you catch her, you are to detain her and return her to me." His eyes glowed like the fires of hell. "She is not to be harmed in any way, or so help you God, you will regret it until your last breath." *

Brooklyn Ann

#53. I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardian the earth had ever known.

Jim Butcher

#54. We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce ...

George Lincoln Rockwell

#55. The only rules he wanted to remember were "never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars" and "never gamble without knowning a back way out

Robert Jordan

#56. Why do we procrastinate leaving? The denial phase is a humbling one. It takes a while to come to terms with our miserable luck. Rowley puts it this way: 'Fires only happen to other people.' We have a tendency to believe that everything is OK because, well, it almost always has been before.

Amanda Ripley

#57. Over the obsidian hills and the sunken yellow dale, through the vast oceans of fog and the fires of nevermore, sits the fickle doors of the land of twilight. I will traverse it all, and execute righteous judgment on all that oppose me.

H.S. Crow

#58. There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

William C. Hannan

#59. Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year round were glowing little fires.

Thomas Hardy

#60. Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

#61. With bombs and fires, you get only one mistake.

Red Adair

#62. Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

Keri Hulme

#63. 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying down, even though this meant that the South Tower, which had been hit second, collapsed first.

David Ray Griffin

#64. I'm a gambler, a farmboy, and I'm here to take command of your bloody army!
Mat Cauthon

Robert Jordan

#65. It's so heartbreaking and unnecessary how we lose things. From pure carelessness. Fires, wars. The Parthenon, used as a munitions storehouse. I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle. p28

Donna Tartt

#66. Wars, crimes, crashes, fires, floods - much of it the social and political equivalent of Adelaide's whooping cough - became the content of what people called the news of the day.

Neil Postman

#67. These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Clifford D. Simak

#68. Oh, William, what pitiable creatures we men are! When we go to church we make the devil angry, when we enjoy ourselves in the inns, we make God angry; we are the unlucky lot stuck between two fires!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#69. Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.

Anonymous

#70. With her enchanting songs, her rare beauty, and clever tricks, this wild 'wanderess' ensnared my soul like a gypsy-thief, and led me foolish and blind to where you find me now. The first time I saw her, fires were alight. It was a spicy night in Barcelona. The air was fragrant and free.

Roman Payne

#71. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Jean De La Fontaine

#72. There were too many fires to put out. Too many pieces to move across the chessboard.

C.D. Reiss

#73. The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.

Robin Bertram

#74. For thousands of years we have gathered in circle
around fires, around bodies, around altars
because we can't do this alone.

Wayne Muller

#75. Guess there is a war on between them and us. But we never do anything about holding up our side of the war, except to keep our parade sites and our storage centers secret and to get out of bodies every time there's an air raid or the enemy fires a rocket or something.

Kurt Vonnegut

#76. Some fires can't bear to dampen and can provide heat even from the distance of time. As

Craig Johnson

#77. Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own master there, only you can reach and ignite the fire.

Rajneesh

#78. He smelled like oak and grass and wood fires.He Smelled like memories. Like years and years of memories.

Amy Plum

#79. 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 as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

Ernie Pyle

#80. Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness ... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#81. Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barney Ross

#82. Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.

Alexander Smith

#83. A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

Sarah J. Maas

#84. by the light of Gypsy fires, my sister and I came of age way too soon

our childhoods were swept away

Roo Bardookie

#85. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

Lauren DeStefano

#86. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

George W. Bush

#87. Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

Arenda L. Wright Allen

#88. People who spend most of their time putting out fires are usually also the arsonists.

Dan Sullivan

#89. The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...

Edith Sitwell

#90. Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one.

Pablo Neruda

#91. Silence had entered me.
It was like the night, and my memories - they were like stars
in that they were fixed, though of course
if one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell.

Louise Gluck

#92. By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
...
Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.

Alexander Pope

#93. No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq Ice

#94. All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Henry Miller

#95. These things frighten people. It's best not to talk about them." "But, Dad, that's like ... like ignoring a fire in the living room because we're all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.

Octavia E. Butler

#96. Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Matt Taibbi

#97. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.

Dan Wells

#98. The compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires.

Silvia Tennenbaum

#99. The beat of her heart, the slow burning away ... of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.

Bruce Springsteen

#100. And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.

Andrew Ashling