Quotes About Fire

If I were there, I'd turn the fire department hose on the entire street, which was probably why it was a good thing that I didn't work with the general public.

She's got a squirrel in her drawers, you idiot. She's not on fire!

But all the paper wasn't the best call. Still, there's only so many things to decorate with, and with the fire extinguishers and volunteers on hand, we figured it would be all right." "Technically, it was," I said. "No one died." Gertie laughed. "The advantage of setting the bar really, really low." "I'm not so sure that 'no one died' is a low bar in Sinful," I said.

Drei Drachen kriechen in meinen Schlaf, die Seele woll'n sie lebendig zum Fraß. Feurigen Atems, gespaltener Zunge genießen sie jeden Mahl. Three dragons creep into my sleep, the spirit wanting life in its repast. Fiery breaths, flicking tongues relishing every meal.

All these thoughts moved through her head like moths around a fire, sometimes vanishing into the darkness, sometimes catching light and zigzagging crazily about.

Enthusiasm is like a fire that needs an occasional poke with a stick.

A friendship is a lot like a fire. It can be hard to get started. After that it needs tending...A person can go around starting minuscule blazes, racing back and forth trying to feed them all; or a person can keep a few atomic bonfires burning high and bright.

My sinful Magdalene, don't cry: Romantic love has spent its fires.

Hux was a revolutionary, full of fire and fervor, but revolutionaries' seasons were fleeting

La crueldad es contagiosa. El odio es contagioso. La fe es contagiosa… Se convierte en fanatismo a la velocidad del rayo… —Ahora el tono era mitad asertivo, mitad rememorativo—. Por eso encierran tanto peligro, por eso son difíciles de parar. Cuando uno quiere percatarse, ya se han propagado como un incendio en el bosque

Tact is good, but it's not the answer to difficult conversations. Tact won't make conversations with your father more intimate or take away your client's anger over the increased bill. Nor is there a simple diplomatic way to fire your friend, to let your mother-in-law know that she drives you crazy, or to confront your colleagues' hurtful prejudices.

earth drama has any purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suffering on the planet, and suffering, although largely ego-created, is in the end also ego-destructive. It is the fire in which the ego burns itself up. In a world of role-playing

If the egoic earth drama has any purpose at all, it is an indirect one: It creates more and more suffering on the planet, and suffering, although largely ego­created, is in the end also ego­destructive. It is the fire in which the ego burns itself up.

When a log that has only just started to burn is placed next to one that is burning fiercely, and after a while they are separated again, the first log will be burning with much greater intensity. After all, it is the same fire. To be such a fire is one of the functions of a spiritual teacher.

The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know that you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger — just a minimum of intelligence and common sense.

And now, though feeble and short-lived, mankind has flaming fire and therefrom learns many crafts.

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

imagination WAS the eagle that devoured Prometheus!

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death; yet there are always new countries to see, new books to read (and, I hope to write), a thousand little daily wonders to marvel at and rejoice in.... The visible is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still worm my hands thankfully by the old fire, through every year it is fed with the dry wood of more memories. --A Backward Glance

Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue do thus expell: Wrath is a fire, and gealosie a weede, Griefe is a flood, and loue a monster fell; The fire of sparkes, the weede of little seede, The flood of drops, the Monster filth did breede: But sparks, seed, drops, and filth do thus delay; The sparks soone quench, the springing seed outweed, The drops dry vp, and filth wipe cleane away: So shall wrath, gealosie, griefe, loue dye and decay.

Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind;