On Fire Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

You have to go create your own fire and people are going to come to you if you create it.

Reignite the fire in your heart. Live on purpose.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give energy if you're not on fire on the inside.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I've been putting out the fire with gasoline.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

We've got a bad fire let's get out . . . We're burning up.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

I don't go around fire expectin' not to sweat

Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.