On Fire Quotes

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

The coffee was boiling over a charcoal fire, and large slices of bread and butter were piled one upon the other like deals in a lumber yard.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

At the end of the day, when the food has all been served and savored, what's left is your connection to the people around your fire

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.

I was afraid the fire would not be hot enough for me to distinguish myself.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed. Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a dangerous Crisis when a proud Heart meets with flattering Lips.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

I should never have played with fire and I did. And I got very burned.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.