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Quotes About Fire

Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes . . . —William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
~ Julianne MacLean
Come, lass, I'll make a fire for us, and you can curl up in a warm bed of fur, and then I'll make a necklace for you out of all the pretty bones from the soldiers I murdered tonight.
~ Julianne MacLean
Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn't like Corinthians. The "suffereth long" and "is kind" nonsense. It's like the Song of Solomon. It's jealousy and fire and floods. It's everything that consumes.
~ Julie Anne Long
Per anni l'aveva rispettato; forse, pensava, anche amato, di quell'amore senza fuoco che si distribuisce in parti uguali ai diversi membri della propria famiglia.»
~ Julien Green
The fire had scorched my leg as hairless as a high-priced whore's but there were no burns,
~ Juliet E. McKenna
Our strength comes from that magic, from the earth and the sky, from the fire and the water. Fly high, swim deep, give back to the earth what she gives you...
~ Juliet Marillier
Inventamos nuestro incendio, ardemos de dentro afuera, quizá eso sea la elección...
~ Julio Cortazar
Un amor como el fuego, arder eternamente en la contemplación del Todo. Pero en seguida se cae en un lenguaje desaforado.»
~ Julio Cortazar
No es que haga tanto frío, en realidad, pero el fuego es el amigo de los artistas, ¿no le parece?
~ Julio Cortazar
Muchacho del diablo!
~ Junot Diaz
The world was ice and the ice burned with sunlight.
~ Junot Diaz
Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance. But
~ Justin Cronin
Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.
~ Justin Cronin
in a way love is all there is that's why love is so hot
~ K. Silem Mohammad
When you come to rely on the written word, it's time to light the fire with it.
~ K.J. Parker
It's like—all right, supposing there's a fire. What do you do? You grab everyone and everything you can and you get the hell out of there. You don't agonise about letting the fire win. Staying alive doesn't make you the fire's accomplice.
~ K.J. Parker
No disrespect to the fire god, naturally; blame it instead on His administration, presumably made up of officers of roughly the same level of ability as their terrestial counterparts. That would explain why the mild storm she'd ordered for Oida hit her instead.
~ K.J. Parker
This is the first time our power did not work,' [the witch doctors] told him. 'After doing the pujas, we asked the spirits to go and kill your family. But the spirits came back and told us they could not approach you or your family because you were always surrounded by fire. Then we called more powerful spirits to come after you--but they too returned, saying not only were you surrounded by fire, but angels were also around you all the time.' Jesu Das told them about Christ.
~ K.P. Yohannan
The dawn invests our substance with desire And the slow light betrays us, and our wistfulness: When the celestial saffron Is faded and grown colourless, And the sun Gone sterile, and the growing fire Stirs us to waken, We find ourselves again Each in his separate prison Ready, hopeless For negotiation With other men.
~ Kai Bird
Oppenheimer's warnings were ignored—and ultimately, he was silenced. Like that rebellious Greek god Prometheus—who stole fire from Zeus and bestowed it upon humankind, Oppenheimer gave us atomic fire. But then, when he tried to control it, when he sought to make us aware of its terrible dangers, the powers-that-be, like Zeus, rose up in anger to punish him.
~ Kai Bird
And it does great signs and even makes fire to come down out of heaven upon the earth before men'. That's from Revelations Thirteen." FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Everywhere, the destruction is the same. The fire is raining down. People are panicking. There's worse than that too, because other natural disasters are rising up.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
I love him with a fire to match the one inside me. I love him, and I know I'll love him until the day I die.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Vanamonde: Welcome home, Lady Heterodyne. Agatha: Thank you, Herr von Mekkhan, but I can't help but notice that my home appears to be on fire .
~ Kaja Foglio