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Quotes About Fire

As in dark forests, measureless along the crests of hills, a conflagration soars, and the bright bed of fire glows for miles, now fiery lights from this great host in bronze played on the earth and flashed high into heaven.
~ Homer
Now Odysseus was sitting close to the fire, but suddenly turned to the dark side; 390 for presently he thought in his heart that, as she handled him, she might be aware of his scar, and all his story might come out. She came up close and washed her lord, and at once she recognized that scar, which once the boar with his white tusk had inflicted on him, when he went to Parnassos, to
~ Homer
So his heart held firm and constant, but he writhed around, as when a man rotates a sausage full of fat and blood; the huge fire blazes, and he longs to have the roasting finished.
~ Homer
Por espacio de nueve días acarrearon abundante leña; y, cuando por décima vez apuntó la aurora, que trae la luz a los mortales, sacaron llorando el cadáver del audaz Héctor, lo pusieron en lo alto de la pira y le prendieron fuego.
~ Homer
It were too much toil for me, as if I were a god, to tell all this, for all about the stone wall the inhuman strength of the fire was rising
~ Homer
His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.
~ Ian Caldwell
I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and it works, it bites us when we go too near the fire, when we love too hard. Those felt sensations are the beginning of the invention of the self...God said, Let there be pain. And there was poetry. Eventually.
~ Ian Mcewan
Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
although the high walls that surrounded his home might conceal the tongues of fire, they could no longer conceal the clouds of smoke.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rayhana realized that she was powerful. However, she also realized that everything around her might turn to ashes in a fire the likes of which she had never seen before.
~ Ibrahim Nasrallah
The judge's massive eyebrows crept up. Kaldar. Are you the one speaking for the plaintiff today? Yes, Your Honor. Well, shit, Dobe said. I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
~ Ilona Andrews
I paused with the pen in my hand. He burst into flames? He became engulfed in fire. Was his buddy made out of orange rocks and at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?
~ Ilona Andrews
How have you been? " my father asked. Say something diplomatic . . . something . . . "If you build a tower in Lawrenceville, I will smash it, set it on fire, and salt the ground it stood on.
~ Ilona Andrews
Do we have a flamethrower?" Curran asked. "No." "We should get a flamethrower.
~ Ilona Andrews
Would you say the shapeshifter was in distress?" "Hell yeah, he was in distress. His tail was on fire." "He ran like his tail was on fire?" "No, his tail was on fire. Like a big, furry candle on his ass.
~ Ilona Andrews
Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm a known fugitive who likes to set people on fire. Come away with me so we can have hot sex while the entire city is trying to shoot me in the head. If I get bored, I'll barbecue you for my amusement. Sure, let me get my shoes.
~ Ilona Andrews
Well, shit, Dobe said. I guess you're familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.
~ Ilona Andrews
I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven't done it since.
~ Pierce Brosnan
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~ George Washington
It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
~ Randeep Hooda
There's a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal - he spits hot fire.
~ Bobby Moynihan
I think you can ban guns if you can just pull the trigger and 60 bullets fire out.
~ Bill Engvall