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Quotes About Fire

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
~ William Golding
But nobody else understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a doctor said take this because if you don't take you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?
~ William Golding
He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence
~ William Golding
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
~ William Golding
The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.
~ William Golding
To the North-West I looked, and in the wide field of my glass, saw plain the bright glare of the fire from the Red Pit, shine upwards against the underside of the vast chin of the North-West Watcher—The Watching Thing of the North-West…. That which hath Watched from the Beginning, and until the opening of the Gateway of Eternity came into my thoughts, as I looked through the glass …
~ William Hope Hodgson
One foreign observer watched the proceedings that evening with different feelings. "The river of fire flowed past the French Embassy," André François-Poncet, the ambassador, wrote, "whence, with heavy heart and filled with foreboding, I watched its luminous wake."7
~ William L. Shirer
Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher.
~ Chinese proverb
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.
~ Chinese proverb
Gold is tested by fire, man by gold
~ Chinese Proverbs
I was astounded at the passion and fire of the melody itself. I could not describe it then, nor can I now. Was it just his voice or something more tangible emerging from his very soul that could arouse such emotion in another person, and bring one's innermost thoughts to life?
~ Chingiz Aitmatov
Trying to fight inertia and indifference with analytical arguments is like tossing a fire extinguisher to someone who's drowning. The solution doesn't match the problem.
~ Chip Heath
Pain makes us crazy. All we want is to throw the live coal of it as far from us as we can, not thinking what we might set afire.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
You are thinking, what does it look like, such a knife. Most ordinary, for that is the nature of deepest magic. Deepest magic which lies at the heart of our everyday lives, flickering fire, if only we had eyes to see.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Spices why must you always compare. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. You who were born in the world's dawning know this far better than I. Answer. Weigh it yourself: To him I will give one night, to you the rest of my life, whatever you choose it to be, one hundred years on the island or a single moment, conflagration and consuming, in Shampati's fire. As
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Spices why must you always compare. Each desire in the world is different, as is each love. You who were born in the world's dawning know this far better than I. Answer. Weigh it yourself: To him I will give one night, to you the rest of my life, whatever you choose it to be, one hundred years on the island or a single moment, conflagration and consuming, in Shampati's fire.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Krishna hinted that such a treasure was inside me—Weapons cannot harm it; fire cannot burn it; it is eternal, still and blissful—but the words, slippery as stones that have been left underwater a long time, slid from my fingers even as I tried to examine them. Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
If I showed you what was in my heart," she said, "it would burn you to a cinder. "I've tried to burn you similarly," it said, "but you never even noticed when I opened my chest.
~ Chris Adrian
Before you bombed my boy Osama I always thought an explosion was such a quick thing but now I know better. The flash is over very fast but the fire catches hold inside you and the noise never stops…I live in an inferno where you could shiver with cold Osama. This life is a deafening roar but listen. You could hear a pin drop.
~ Chris Cleave
There is a sign in the heavens Another light in the darkness A better time is beginning There is a fire star coming I see the mark of the ice bear In the tears of the dragon And you'd better start wishing There is a fire star coming Stay with me, my love...... ....Until the stars have blinked their last Wherever on this earth you walk He will arouse, excite, inspire, My Valentine, my one dark fire.......
~ Chris d'Lacey
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
~ Chris d'Lacey
Fire is not a thing. It is a situation of temperature.
~ Chris Onstad
When God met with Elijah, great signs were manifested but God wasn't in any of them; there was a great wind, an earthquake and a fire.
~ Chris Oyakhilome
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee