Quotes About Fire

The obsidian flake and the silicon chip are struck by the light of the same campfire that has passed from hand to hand since the human mind began.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

There were times in life when nothing short of spitting fire would do.

We looked at the fire. "This is one hell of a date," I said. "Trapped by a horde of vampires in the middle of a snow-covered field, huddling around a tiny fire on thin blankets," Curran said. "Drink it in, baby. All this luxury just for you." "At least it's not raining." We both looked up just in case a freak downpour decided to drench us, but the night sky was clear. Nothing but stars and desperation.

Could you be more smug?" He leaned on his elbow. "Possibly. I see you liked the flowers." I got a sudden urge to set the carnations on fire. "They are gorgeous. It's not their fault you brought them.

She looked beautiful and alive, as if the planet had exhaled its magic and conjured her from its breath to taunt him. He wanted to touch her to see if she was real. The woods spread for many kilometers around them, steeped in night shadows and glowing with delicate color. The temple sat within them like a tiny man-made island, and their fire was its heart. It felt like they were the last two people on the planet, just him and her.

I raised my gaze. He was looking at me, his amber eyes full of flames from the fire. "But would I get you, if I were an innkeeper?" "Yes." "That's all I want.

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 did he at any point yell, 'It's clobbering time'?

The conversation in the Old Brompton Road was more like an experience of the inferno, but lovers are accustomed to fire.

En los mitos griegos, estaba el titán, o Prometeo, que suministró el fuego (y por consiguiente tecnología) a los seres humanos y por ello fue terriblemente castigado por el enfurecido Zeus, que era el dios jefe.

y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.

A los ventidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y ella se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero cuanto más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca; hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aún así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.

Inside I carried a burning restlessness.

Ce pacat ca ardoarea inflacarata se transforma intr-o dragoste deplina! Mie imi place tocmai inflacararea. (din "Viata si spririt")

A los veintidós años, sospechando que tenían el tiempo contado, Ichimei y Alma se atragantaron de amor para consumirlo entero, pero mientras más intentaban agotarlo, más imprudente era el deseo, y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun así quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxígeno.»

Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.

Fire tries gold, misfortune men.

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

What is man but his passion?

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled, it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.