Fire Quotes
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.Curtis Dahl
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers - By see only a wisp of smoke.Vincent Van Gogh
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.Sam Walton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.Publilius Syrus
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.La Rochefoucald
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget.Charles Hamilton Aide
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.Aesop
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?George Carlin
Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.Alighieri Dante
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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.Confucius, The Confucian Analects