On Fire Quotes

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

Power has destroyed many people - not really. Power doesn't destroy anyone. People apply it poorly and it can ruin their lives. Power is like fire. Fire is neither good nor bad. It's how you use it.

You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all.

The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire.

The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.