On Fire Quotes

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

My normal routine is pretty much putting out fires all day.

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.

The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.

My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.

There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

You have to remain cool under fire and let criticism roll off you. Good leaders handle conflict easily and bad ones are eaten up by it.

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I've always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

you must not use wood to put out the fire.

Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.'

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.