Quotes About Fire

Mr. Earbrass has rashly been skimming through the early chapters, which he had not looked at for months, and now sees TUH for what it is. Dreadful, dreadful , DREADFUL. He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel. Mad. Why did n't he become a spy? How does one become one? He will burn the MS. Why is there no fire? Why are n't there the makings of one? How did he get in the unused room on the third floor?

What has he done?" he asked. The young man himself began to respond, but the youths cut him off. "He started the Fire of London, sir," they cried. Even the day before, the rumours had begun. A fire like this could not be the work of chance. Some said it must be the Dutch. But most – perhaps half the good people of London – had a sounder suspicion by far. "It's the Catholics," they said. "Who else would do such a thing?

In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.

Fasting is a shield against (hell) fire. Charity and dole remove and finish sin, as does the remembrance of Allah in the midnight.

Into the kitchen!" snorted the wet maid, "Into the kitchen?! I'm a lady! I don't go into kitchens. I--" "No?" queried the Master, trying once more not to laugh, "Well, my wife does. So does my mother. I spoke of the kitchen because it's the only room with a fire in it, in this weather. If you'd prefer the barn or-

In this place that we live--my West, my father's North, and my mother's new hemisphere--rabbits in a burning field of grass can catch on fire. They run to a clear place where there is no fire, but, in doing so, light it up because their fur is burning. That way, in trying to save themselves, they spread the fire more. . . . And it speeds to everyone.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Luther's fire caught because fuel had been quietly building up for some time. The principal fuel was desire for reform of the church.

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Everything makes love with silence. They promised me a silence like fire, a house of silence. Suddenly the temple is a circus the light a drum.

una muchacha en llamas al borde de la noche.

Todo hace el amor con el silencio. Me habían prometido un silencio como un fuego, una casa de silencio. De pronto el templo es un circo y la luz un tambor.

El lenguaje silencioso engendra fuego. El silencio se propaga, el silencio es fuego. Era preciso decir acerca del agua o simplemente apenas nombrarla, de modo de atraerse la palabra agua para que apague las llamas del silencio.

Yo no sé de pájaros, no conozco la historia del fuego. Pero creo que mi soledad debería tener alas.

El agua sucia puede apagar un incendio

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures will

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,And unawares Morality expires.Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!Lo! thy dread empire Chaos! is restor'd:Light dies before thy uncreating word;Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall,And universal darkness buries all.

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.