Fire Quotes - page 4

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good. (Jerry Lee Lewis)
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. View quote
George W. Bush
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. View quote
George Washington
If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave. View quote
Temple Grandin
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy. View quote
Edith Sitwell
What fire does not destroy, it hardens. View quote
Oscar Wilde
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life? View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats. (Timothy Garton Ash)
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind. View quote
William Cowper
Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns. View quote
George Herbert
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. View quote
George Orwell
Eloquence may set fire to reason. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. View quote
Charles Lamb
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The look of love alarms Because tis filled with fire But the look of soft deceit Shall sin the lovers hire. View quote
William Blake
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire! View quote
Hermann Göring
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, With whom revenge is virtue. (Edward Young)
The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people that he has started a prairie fire, which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control. View quote
J. William Fulbright
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. View quote
Horace
The moon's an arrant thief,And her pale fire she snatches from the sun. View quote
William Shakespeare