Quotes About Fire

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.

They wanted payback. I thought about what Rose said, wanting to see the rest of us hurt, because she was hurting. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire. -p. 496

They wanted payback. I thought about what Rose sadi, wanting to see the rest of us hurt, because she was hurting. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire.

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I love single malts. Especially the old Islay whiskies. They say age removes the fire but leaves the warmth. I like that." You

a cycle of time seen through, cleanse our hard, inveterate stains and leave us clear ethereal sense, the eternal breath of fire purged and pure.

The battle-fire had dropped over him, burning him everywhere with its righteous heat, sizzling his sight, frying his synapses and roasting his heart in its holy glow.

We could see other fires--great leaping bonfires as well as cooking fires--all the way down the beach to the twinkling metropolis of Joyland. They made a lovely chain of burning jewelry. Such fires are probably illegal in the twenty-first century; the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

The brilliance of the moon, of fire, the brilliance that flames from the sun to illumine the entire world - this brilliance in truth is mine. Entering the earth, I support all beings by my life-giving power: becoming the nectar-filled moonlight. I cause plants and herbs to thrive.

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

He had burned that book too late.

The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.