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Quotes About Fire

Well, this was the door out of my stupid perfect world, a door for calamities and configurations, and for when things were on fire...
~ Scott Westerfeld
If there's an image of the apocalypse, I thought, it might be a man in a business suit building a fire in the courtyard of an abandoned high rise.
~ Sebastian Junger
If there's an image of the Apocalypse, I thought, it might be a man in a business suit building a fire in the courtyard of an abandoned high-rise. In different circumstances it could be any of us, anywhere, but it had happened to him here, and there wasn't much I could do about it. I nodded to him and he nodded back and then I left him in peace.
~ Sebastian Junger
My good Lysander! I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow, By his best arrow with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burned the Carthage queen When the false Troyan under sail was seen, By all the vows that ever men have broke In number more than ever women spoke, In that same place thou hast appointed me, Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
~ Shakespeare William
Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
~ Shakespeare, William
The bonfire was going a treat
~ Sharon Lee
if there's fire on the mountain or lightning and storm and a god speaks from the sky. That means someone is hearing the outcry and the birth-cry of new life at its term.
~ Sharon Moalem
Time's up, Ladies. Let's go back inside. We can sit by the fire, hold hands, and sing Kumbaya, Seth called from the front porch. Fucker, Hammer muttered. I think we should beat his ass next, Liam muttered conspiratorially. Both men cracked a knowing grin. As if they'd read one another's minds, they raised their right arms and flipped Seth off, laughing. It felt good.
~ Shayla Black
So Lightning says to Mud, "What would happen if I struck your blood?" And Mud says, "Brother, It would hurt, And make me the mother Of every living thing. But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt Until you burn me a ring.
~ Sherman Alexie
Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.
~ Sherman Alexie
Hell, sometimes it feels like the whole country is on fire. Like a constant conflagration is burning too close to all poor people. Shouldn't rich-ass America be taking care of everybody?
~ Sherman Alexie
The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Strength through adversity. The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it strength. Those two things make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight. (Savitar)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
See... I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All right, the pendulum isn't working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it." – Death "Like gasoline?" – Nick "Yes, Nick. We're going to set the book and your pendulum on fire and then use them 'cause we're just that intelligent." – Death
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.) Excuse me. I almost made Dark-Hunter barbecue, which would be really sad 'cause I ain't got no barbecue sauce with me. (Simi)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You smoke? (Randy) Only when I'm on fire. (Steele) I don't appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I'm an acquired taste. (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Varyk slid his gaze over to the fire that was blazing in the ornate Victorian hearth. "You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I"d been on the island with Gilligan, he"d have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Passion is what gives sense to our life.
~ Dalai Lama
In life, the worst disasters come from passion.
~ Euripides
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
~ Ezra Pound