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Quotes About Fire

Beautiful flames, can destroy so many things—prison walls that hold you, stitches that bind you fast.
~ Susanna Clarke
Beware Stephen! There will probably be a magical combat of some sort. I daresay I shall have to take on different forms – cockatrice, raw head and bloody bones, rains of fire, etc., etc. You may wish to stand back a little!
~ Susanna Clarke
what storm-benighted traveller, when fierce winds and rains are lashing around his lodging, can withstand the cheering influences of a glorious log-fire?
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
If I forget thee, O Vulcan, let my eyes lose their fire, my blood lose its flame, and my intellect its keenness.
~ Josepha Sherman
Les chasseurs sont partis Grand-père dépose la théière sur le feu L'odeur du thé de la Toundra m'enivre Il me tend une tasse d'écorce Mon être se réchauffe Toundra, tu me gâtes
~ Josephine Bacon
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
~ Josh Lanyon
He had one of those British public school accents that make insignificant comments like Would you pass the butter sound as interesting as Fire when ready!
~ Josh Lanyon
crime is like a fire you must smother it before it gets out of hand
~ Joshua Crosier
Those of fire move about the earth with inspiration and purpose. They are creative, and can consume and be consumed by their desires [...] My father-to-be was of the water and could not find a hold in the banks of earthiness. Water people can easily get lost.
~ Joy Harjo
Fui sobre agua edificada, mis muros de fuego son
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
When a fool does evil work, he forgets that he is lighting a fire wherein he must burn one day.
~ Juan Mascaro
Whence this lifeless dejection, Arjuna, in this hour, the hour of trial? Strong men know not despair, Arjuna, for this wins neither heaven nor earth. Fall not into degrading weakness, for this becomes not a man who is a man. Throw off this ignoble discouragement, and arise like a fire that burns all before it.
~ Juan Mascaro
sight." "Yeah?" That blue fire returned
~ Jude Deveraux
Just as with fire and knives, spirits must always be treated with respect and caution. A combination of common sense and knowing how to work with them ensures safety.
~ Judika Illes
The adversity at the brickyard was a reminder to me that love and bricks both need a slow, steady burn in order to become strong and withstand the test of time. I promise to tend the fire of love between us and never let it go out.
~ Judith McCoy Miller
In Australia, the dawn is an arsonist who pours petrol along the horizon, throws a match on it and watches it burn.
~ Julia Baird
Prince Nicholas wrote: ' If your house is broken into and plundered and finally set on fire by persons whom you considered to be your best friends, have the latter any right to call you a 'traitor' because, in despair, you opened your window and screamed for help?
~ Julia P. Gelardi
Is there anything else I can do to see to your comfort, Miss Trent?" Perriwick inquired. "She's fine," Blake growled. "Clearly, she--" "Perriwick, isn't the west wing on fire?" Perriwick blinked, sniffed the air, and stared at his employer in dismay. "I do not understand sir.
~ Julia Quinn
And so kissing her became a matter of self-preservation. It was simple. If he did not kiss her now, if he did not consume her, he would die. It sounded melodramatic, but at the moment he would have sworn it to be true. The hand of desire twisting around his gut would burst into flame and take him along with it.
~ Julia Quinn
And Lord, how he'd been imagining it. Despite his composed demeanor, despite all of his promises to Anthony, he burned for her. When he saw her across a crowded room, his skin grew hot, and when he saw her in his dreams, he went up in flames. Now
~ Julia Quinn
I think early on in the league, my biggest problem was I tried to put out what I believe was an innocent fire because I felt it was a conflict with other stars.
~ Iman Shumpert
The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.
~ Craig Venter
Genius is initiative on fire.
~ Holbrook Jackson
It must have been marvelous when the century was young and things impressed themselves in such blatant vivid brilliance that an approaching fire under a starry sky could illuminate, even to a Crimean actress, this sense of "place" – that there was nothing to be wanted from material things, nothing to be saved.
~ Eve Babitz