On Fire Quotes
Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.
To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one's idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.
I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.
Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.
How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
When you mention to people growing up in Cleveland they bring up the river catching on fire, or LeBron James leaving, they have these references, but no one imagines ending up there.
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.
IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.
The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
The guerrilla band is not to be considered inferior to the army against which it fights simply because it is inferior in fire power.
Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.
We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.
Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.
I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
They always say to Californians that we don't have seasons. Of course, that is not true. We have fire, flood, mud and drought.
We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies.
There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.
The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.
When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.
People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.
I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.
Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
