Fire Quotes - page 13

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference. (Joe Biden)
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife; Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. View quote
Walter Savage Landor
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction. View quote
William Baziotes
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she that burns in t. View quote
William Shakespeare
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive They sparkle still the right Promethean fire They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world. View quote
William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. View quote
William Shakespeare
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions. View quote
Dean Kamen
.... it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence. View quote
Mark Twain
I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings. View quote
Robinson Jeffers
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. (Pierre Corneille)
It is hard to hate what one has loved, And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
what matters most is how well you walk through the fire. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn. View quote
Shams Tabrizi
You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment. View quote
Arthur Miller
People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle. (Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh)
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire. View quote
Robert Burns
Dryden's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. View quote
Voltaire
What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance. View quote
John Sedgwick