Quotes About Fire

People try to save special things but they did not always succeed. Rare books from a library were moved to a Pavilion building. When the Pavilion building caught fire, all the books burned. The building that originally held them did not burn at all.

She looked up at the whirling effulgent cloud, and thought, I brought down the fire from heaven; I have lived with glory. A thunderbolt struck from the sky and all was gone.

There is no doubt that a really first-class fire, when no fear for human life intrudes, is one of the great atavistic joys still known to man. Today it is very shocking to think of archaeological treasures burning; to Macedonians and still more to Greeks, the significance of Persepolis was rather different.

After hearts shot through with arrows, we have bunnies followed by a warlike fire in the sky, then ghosts, turkeys to honor more ghosts, and a baby born in a barn who is not yet a ghost but also a ghost, for whom we drag trees inside where they do not belong.

The side of me that feared fire and longed for ice, that cringed at noise and hungered for silence, that shied from touch and desired to numb itself into nothing.

Love and justice are like water and fire -- although both are necessary, they go together with difficulty. Compassion and wisdom are like heat and light -- although different, they work together in complementarity.

Pensar en ti es como lanzar al fuego copos de nieve. Algo así como una forma de felicidad que me da miedo más o menos para siempre.

Penser à toi, c'est comme jeter des flocons dans un feu. Il est une certaine forme de bonheur qui me fait peur à peu près pour toujours.

Il problema è che offro più di quanto ho. Sono il più stupido dei draghi. Quello che sputa scintille e si brucia le ali.

Corpul îi trosnea ca un bec supratensionat. Ai fi zis c? e o fantom? ro?ie-argintie incandescent? care murea pentru a doua oar?. Mi-era team? s-o ating, s? nu se sparg?, s? nu m? ard. Mi-era team?. Vedeam incendii stroboscopice crescând sub pleoapele ei, r?spândindu-se în fl?c?ri albastre.

An optimist looks at a seed and sees a tree; a pessimist looks at a tree and sees a forest fire.

you make the fire and I'll show you something wonderful: a big ball of snow!

And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

She had a fire insider her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. The she realised. A fire has no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

Distraction is an attempt to escape that rarely works. You don't put out a fire by ignoring the fire. You have to acknowledge the fire. You can't compulsively swallow or tweet or drink your way out of pain. There comes a point at which you have to face it. To face yourself. In a world of a million distractions you are still left with only one mind.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her. Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

Distraction is an attempt to escape that rarely works. You don't put out a fire by ignoring the fire. You have to acknowledge the fire [...] In a world of a million distractions you are still left with only one mind.

Well, you can take that fire and put it in the ocean.

somewhere in the universe of my soul a fiery, life-giving star collapsed, and a very black hole began to form.

She had a fire inside her. She wondered if the fire was to warm her or destroy her.

Then she realised. A fire had no motive. Only she could have that. The power was hers.

Fire She gasped. The sensations were sudden. The noise and the water. She had her mouth open and she choked. The tang and sting of salt water. She tried to touch her feet on the bottom of the pool but she was out of her depth so she quickly

Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy!