fire quotes

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

— Aesop

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

— Lord Byron

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ”

— Victor Hugo

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”

— Franz Kafka

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

— Ovid

“I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.”

— William Shakespeare

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

— Jean de La Fontaine

“There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ”

— Dennis Quaid

“I’m fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. I’m not perfect but I got a desire to improve.”

— Drake

“When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ”

— George Washington Bush

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

— Maya Angelou

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

— George Carlin

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”

— George Carlin

“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.”

— Steve Martin

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

— Anais Nin

“Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.”

— Barack Obama

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

— Henry Miller

“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.”

— Marilyn Manson

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

— Dolly Parton

“I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.”

— Dolly Parton

“What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.”

— Mitt Romney

fire quotes

“It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. ”

“It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.”

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ”

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

“I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.”

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

“There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ”

“I’m fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. I’m not perfect but I got a desire to improve.”

“When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ”

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”

“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.”

“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”

“Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.”

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.”

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

“I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.”

“What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.”

“Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.”