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Quotes About Fire

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
~ Victor Hugo
To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.
~ Victoria Chang
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
~ George R. R. Martin
That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
~ John J. Geddes
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
~ Dwight L. Moody
The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.
~ James Altucher
I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.
~ Jenny Slate
Last year my birthday cake looked like a prairie fire.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.
~ Tom Stoppard
Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!
~ David Lynch
Who can give more heat to the fire, or joy to heaven, or pain to hell? A ring upon a nun is like a ring in a sow's nose. Your best friend is still alive. Who is that? You. The sun is none the worse for shining on a dunghill. He must needs swim that is borne up to the chin. An hour's cold will suck out seven years of heat.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Many is the night I have sat by the roaring river the rain never ending them logs so green bubbling and spitting blazing in a rage no rain can staunch.
~ Peter Carey
He smelled meat burning and realized that it was him.
~ Peter David
most notably the UNSC Spirit of Fire in 2531, a story everyone in the UNSC damn well knew.
~ Peter David
Prayer is not only conversation, it is transformation. It is not only light, it is fire. And the closer you get to Him, the hotter the fire gets. Words begin to melt. The first word that melts in His presence is the word 'I.' That is His unique name. The closer you get to Him, the harder it is to begin a sentence with 'I.' It melts in the fire of 'thou.
~ Peter Kreeft
You see, passion alone is a blind power. It's fire without light. It just ignites whatever it touches, good or evil, truth or lies, unselfishness or selfishness, love or lust.
~ Peter Kreeft
Ranged weapons, together with the mastery of fire, literally made us human. They also defined what may be called the "human way of war." The distinguishing characteristic of human combat is the ability to strike from a distance coupled with mobility.
~ Peter Turchin
So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren't human, but they were people, she told herself; it's not them, they're us. They
~ Philip Pullman
Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.
~ Philip Pullman
Now the screams were awful to hear as men burned like candles all along the deck. Black smoke billowed over the sea. Argurios could not believe what he was watching. At least fifty helpless men were dying in agony. One man managed to free himself and leap into the sea. Amazingly, when he surfaced the flames were still consuming him. All along the beach there was silence as the stunned crowd watched the magical fires burning the galley and it's crew.
~ David Gemmell
Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire.
~ David Gemmell
would ride into fire. For Odysseus that whip was pride.
~ David Gemmell
You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire.
~ David Hare
boundbydad: thrust your fierce quavering manpole at me, stud grayscale: your dastardly appendage engorges me with hellfire boundbydad: my search party is creeping into your no man's land grayscale: baste me like a thanksgiving turkey!!!
~ David Levithan