Touching Fire Quotes

#1. How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?

Gunter Grass

#2. Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Anne Hutchinson

#3. Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#4. If someone could reach into my chest and tear out my heart and turn it into a living, breathing person, Isaiah would be it.

Airicka Phoenix

#5. Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Herman Melville

#6. Touching her now, after her gratifyingly loud and spectacularly animated release, calmed me even as it stoked a frenzied fire of need. I wanted to touch her everywhere. And for always. What

Penny Reid

#7. But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.

Aristotle.

#8. She had lived the idea of spreading truth like a fire, like touching a lit candle to another candle and watching its flame come to life, until the whole world was bright and you saw everything clear.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind
Nayyirah Waheed

Nayyirah Waheed

#10. Never in my life did I expect to hold a gun, let alone fire one. It feels dangerous to me, as if just by touching it, I could hurt someone.

Veronica Roth

#11. The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

#12. I can't lose you. I can't survive it." "Yes, you can," he murmured, his fingertips touching her cheek. "You can survive anything. Loss can be like chains holding you in place or a fire pushing you onward. We each choose every day what it will be to us.

Annette Marie

#13. Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice."
I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Orson Scott Card

#14. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.

Edmund Morris

#15. If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes.

Olga Goa

#16. The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.

Ibn Majah

#17. She's out from my life, I don't know whether to laugh or cry

Josh Groban

#18. I didn't ask to be born!"
"No, but I asked." He was breathing hard. His eyes hard and glinting with a fire that burned straight through me. "I asked for you every day of my life!

Airicka Phoenix

#19. I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Lena Horne

#20. WHEN SHE RECOUNTED her dream for Percy, the ship's toilets exploded.

Rick Riordan

#21. I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Meryl Streep

#22. He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

Paul Auster

#23. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#24. It's our scars that define us.

Lisa Renee Jones

#25. We're simply trying to survive - and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible.

Robert A. Heinlein