On Fire Quotes
This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.
I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities.
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.
I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.
The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.
A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.
A sense of beauty is every hindrance to a soldier; yet there would be no soldiers - or none such soldier had not men dead and living cherished and handed on the sacred fire.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.
Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Lil Wayne is the best rapper on Earth. Can't nobody touch him. He's the only guy who can put out 300 songs a year and they all fire.
When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership. (on Thierry Henry)
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.
Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.
Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.
Lost! Lost! Lost! Better a whole world on fire than a soul lost! Better every star quenched and the skies a wreck than a single soul to be lost!
Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
Face the fact that there's only one sure-fire way to erase credit card debt. By picking up a big, shiny pair of scissors and cutting your wife in half.
