Quotes About Fire

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.

'Fire Walk With Me' was so divisive because the tone was so different than the TV series. But now television is almost more of a free medium than cinema.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do.

When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

She was melting inside. Melting and burning all at the same time.

It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.

I'd been too afraid my tears would christen it with my sorrows. I wanted nothing about the fire to exist in my

In total, four hundred thousand books in Central Library were destroyed in the fire. An additional seven hundred thousand were badly damaged by either smoke or water or, in many cases, both. The number of books destroyed or spoiled was equal to the entirety of fifteen typical branch libraries. It was the greatest loss to any public library in the history of the United States.

The biggest library fire in American history had been upstaged by the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.

In the physics of fire, there is a chemical phenomenon known as a stoichiometric condition, in which a fire achieves the perfect burning ratio of oxygen to fuel—in other words, there is exactly enough air available for the fire to consume all of what it is burning.

The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both.

On April 29, 1986, the day the library burned