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Quotes About Fire

We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air.
~ Elaine Dundy
that the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.
~ Elena Ferrante
Everything was moving: the sea of fire under the crust of the earth, and the furnaces of the stars, and the planets, and the universes, and the light within the darkness and the silence in the cold.
~ Elena Ferrante
That fact remains that I, who had successfully completed a theological correspondence course, raised my hand and said that the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit - this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son - was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.
~ Elena Ferrante
El fuego arde en las entrañas de Leonora, nunca ha experimentado algo semejante: -¿Es esto el amor? Max le responde que el amor nace del deseo por alguien y que Nietzsche dijo: -<> -¿Y qué pasa si descubrimos su imperfección? -Viene el desamor.
~ Elena Poniatowska
Tante pagine sublimi sono state date alle fiamme, mentre questi documenti schifosi stanno ancora qui nella mia biblioteca.
~ Antoine Volodine
il y a ce qui subsiste d'une usine dont le cœur atomique est en feu depuis trois cent soixante-deux ans.
~ Antoine Volodine
Nature comprehends the visible and invisible Creatures of the Whole universe. What we call Nature especially, is the universal fire or Anima Mundi, filling the whole system of the Universe, and therefore is a Universal Agent, omnipresent, and endowed with an unerring instinct, and manifests itself in fire and Light. It is the First creature of Divine Omnipotence.
~ Anton Josef Kirchweger
No tienes un poco de calor para mí? Este hogar es todo lo que tengo, ya ves. No hay carbón, no hay llamas en él, mis sueños son todo lo que siempre he encendido.
~ Antonia Michaelis
Porque vosotros sois demasiado pacíficos, demasiado insinceros, demasiado fríos. Pero yo estoy ardiendo por dentro; ardiendo con un fuego terrible, que no me deja vivir y que puede haceros arder a todos... Ardiendo en esto que los videntes llaman oscuridad, y que es horroroso..., porque no sabemos lo que es. Yo os voy a traer la guerra, y no la paz.
~ Antonio Buero Vallejo
Her ardor matched my own. For a time I was eighteen years old once more, in all the perfection of youth.
~ Antonio Di Benedetto
Todos somos madera, y el fuego es eterno.
~ Antonio Escohotado
Y un hombre vi que en la desnuda mano mostraba al mundo el ascua de la vida, sin cenizas - el fuego heraclitano. Esto soñé.
~ Antonio Machado
If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.
~ Antony Flew
passion is all consuming
~ Anya Bast
Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.
~ Anya Seton
Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.
~ Apple LaserWriter manual
I doubt it is your style Not to get what you set out to acquire The eyes are on fire You are the unforecasted storm Brianstorm
~ Arctic Monkeys
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
~ Aristophanes
Now there are two ways in which fire outside the body can, as we see, come to an end, namely, exhaustion and extinction. By exhaustion we mean that termination which is produced by the fire itself; by extinction, that which is produced by the contraries of fire.
~ Aristotle
[History] is fallible as every man is fallible. But it is likewise trustworthy, as a man is trustworthy who has looked into himself and come to know how blended are dust and fire in the innermost recesses of the human heart.
~ Arthur Bestor
Joy! A spark of fire from heaven . . . Drunk with fire we dare to enter, Holy One, inside your shrine.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older - 10 years and 5 years - so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.
~ Jennie Finch
In his stint with Renault, Michael Schumacher not only helped make Germany an F1 nation, he also sparked my enthusiasm and fire for racing.
~ Nico Hulkenberg