Top 100 Quotes About Fire
#1. She didn't just walk on the wild side,
she lived there, dancing in the streets
and setting fire to its sky.
J. Iron Word
#2. A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#3. So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.
Khaled Mashal
#4. Cane tended to have mood swings like a bitch. One minute he could be cool as hell and then the next he was mean as fire.
Nika Michelle
#5. Perhaps it's time for fire to save another Clan.
Erin Hunter
#6. You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire
Colm O'Rourke
#7. Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
Marilynne Robinson
#9. Trust in good verse then:
They only shall aspire,
When pyramids, as men
Are lost i'the funeral fire.
Arthur Quiller-Couch
#10. I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
Andy Goldsworthy
#11. Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness
Amy Huntley
#12. You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
Michelle Hodkin
#13. Any blisters on your shoulder blades would weep painfully, as the weight of the pack went back on. Then somehow your mind would shut out the pain, for a while. Until, by the end of the march, your shoulders would start to wilt and cramp up as if they were on fire.
Bear Grylls
#14. If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
Hollis Frampton
#15. HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS
Nicole Krauss
#16. Leila dreamt that her Soul was on fire. It was not a nightmare. Shannon was in the dream. Shannon was telling her to wake up. She woke up, burning as if she had a fever, nearly soaking wet with sweat. Kevin was asleep beside her.
H. Raven Rose
#17. When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
Jeanne Moreau
#18. Now there is a fitting sword for a Rider and dragon! said Saphira in a delighted tone. It breathes fire as easily as I do.
Christopher Paolini
#19. My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms, her flesh cooled to dawn-stone, mother keening - Jala was the ember now lifeless, and from that day, in mother's eyes, I became naught but its bed of ash.
Steven Erikson
#20. Dying is so simple. A fleeting moment of suffering. In the blink of an eye you are over the threshold, into another world. No more pain, no more fears. You sleep so well there.
Dying is like rubbing snow together, setting fire to a whole winter of cold and ice.
Shan Sa
#21. The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.
One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.
Robert A. Heinlein
#22. People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
Michael Josephson
#23. When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.
Steven Moffat
#24. The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several factors ignited the fire. For projects coming on line in 2005, record-low interest rates during the design phase 12 to 18 months prior provided additional incentive for development and absorption.
Brian Gordon
#25. I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.
Jon Stewart
#26. Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.
Stephenie Meyer
#27. Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.
Chris Tomlin
#28. This is one of the most important moments in your life. Nothing will ever be the same. We might get rich. We might get killed. We might just have an adventure or lean something. But we have been changed. We are standing close the Heraclitean fire, feeling its heat on our faces.
Neal Stephenson
#30. One day I will write something that evades criticism. One day I will also learn to fire lasers out of my ass
Me
#31. I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.
Mark Hoppus
#32. We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead
Mathias Malzieu
#33. Someday her prince would come. And he'd be a rich and hairy Alpha dude who howled at the moon and pissed on fire hydrants.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#34. She's a pistol that if you don't learn how to point and shoot properly. The back fire could be hazardous to your health or life.
A.M. Willard
#35. Bad kitty!" he screeched, snarling and baring his fangs at Grimalkin, who yawned and turned away to groom his tail. "Evil, evil, sneaky kitty! Bite your head off in your sleep, I will! Hang you by your toes and set you on fire! Burn, Burn!"
-Razor
Julie Kagawa
#36. That lovely face sets off a fire inside me that isn't ever supposed to burn.
Robin Talley
#37. My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me.
William Butler Yeats
#38. This is my hall. And I do not
"
She was cut off as a sharp spear of fire shot out of Arosh's fingers. Livia pulled a guard in front of her, who immediately turned to ash.
"Shut up, woman. I am speaking.
Elizabeth Hunter
#39. The blazing fire consumed all. No one got out alive. And
Lisa Genova
#40. We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.
Daniel Quinn
#42. I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.
Kid Rock
#43. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
Joseph Heller
#44. What is it with these prophets? Almost without exception ordinary men, some of them with more vices than virtues, suddenly they were touched with fire.
Is it that a man sees best the stars when he is prone?
Little Pigeon
#45. He was in the fire station not exactly enjoying a lonely lunch.
Michael Grant
#46. You're the only fire that consumes me. And my wonderful monster smiled at that. Smiled at me.
Saundra Mitchell
#47. I LIKE FIRE... I LIKE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF IT... I JUST COULDN'T STOP MYSELF FROM PLAYING WITH... - DOES it mean that I am a serial killer?
(People say that the beginning of a serial killer is - arsonist)
Deyth Banger
#48. My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.
Marlon Riggs
#49. The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.
Johnny Cash
#50. He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac
Karen Marie Moning
#51. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Seth
#52. The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!
Gwendolyn Brooks
#53. Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?'
'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.'
'But it's a dragon!
Rick Riordan
#54. So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
Lord Byron
#55. Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
Matthew Simpson
#56. In that instant she knew what it must feel like to cross a river into a foreign country, and then set fire to the bridge behind you, and stand on the riverbank, watching and breathing deeply as your only chance of retreat went up in smoke.
Stephen King
#58. The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
Huston Smith
#59. If I burn the candles, it means not only giving you light. It means to show you the fire which I have inside.
Gaurav GRV Sharma
#60. Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground.
Andy Stanley
#61. There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on Earth when unseen forces make a calamity of the status quo. There are times on Earth when it seems as though a divine arsonist has set fire to the world as we know it.
- We live in such times.
Jacob Nordby
#62. I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
Flavor Flav
#63. Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.
Kenya Wright
#64. A writer creates from his mind; his creations emanate from the feelings enmeshed deep within his heart. From the fire burning within his soul, he gives shape to his thoughts. His thoughts start to breathe. Every sentence breathes with a purpose.
Avijeet Das
#65. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyeilding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Song of Solomon 8:6
Elizabeth Hunter
#67. A clean light soaked into the shaggy bark of a eucalyptus and it was a powerful thing to see, the whole tree glowed, it showed electric and intense, the branches ran to soft fire, the tree seemed revealed.
Don DeLillo
#68. If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
J.M. Barrie
#69. All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series
Kim Cormack
#70. Apparently,they've decided that's a gray zone. It could get them all burned." Then he adds in a whisper, almost to himself, "But the fire can be tempting.
Susan Ee
#71. When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
Beryl Bainbridge
#72. I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered
about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.
Willa Cather
#73. The human body is capable of amazing physical deeds. If we could just free ourselves from our perceived limitations and tap into our internal fire, the possibilities are endless.
Dean Karnazes
#74. Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
Summer Altice
#75. Oh, yes, thy sins Do run before thee to fetch fire from hell, To light thee thither.
John Webster
#76. various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
Anne Lamott
#77. I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.
Alain Chartier
#78. Anyone who toys with the idea of cutting off bits of the eurozone hoping the rest will survive is playing with fire.
Yanis Varoufakis
#79. Rises XXIII. Fire Rises XXIV. Drawn to the Loadstone Rock Book the Third -
Charles Dickens
#80. As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#81. Beauty,' Brimstone had scoffed once. 'Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
Laini Taylor
#82. I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.
Cassandra Clare
#83. What is my true substance?
What will remain of me after my death?
Our life is as short as a raging fire:
flames the passer-by soon forgets,
ashes the wind blows away.
A man's life.
Omar Khayyam
#84. The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish
Tamara Hoffa
#85. Most people don't know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.
Denis Leary
#86. To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot.
[To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]
George Herbert
#87. The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.
Velupillai Prabhakaran
#88. I sort of ... accidentally ... tore it to pieces.
And threw it in the fire.
Well, he was mine after all.
Heather Dixon
#90. I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.
Lil' Wayne
#91. I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.
Jay Leno
#92. Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?
Thomm Quackenbush
#93. You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.
William Shakespeare
#96. I believe in hope, in what is something called "radical hope." I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that's why I write fiction, probaby. It's my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r
John Green
#97. But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock's robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.
Cassandra Clare
#98. We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are the victims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#99. A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#100. See the judge upon the bench who tries the case as best he can, see the wise and wicked ones who feed upon life's sacred fire, see the soldier with his gun who must be dead to be admired.
Gordon Lightfoot
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