Fire Quotes - page 63

It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result. (Apolo Ohno)
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? View quote
Ada Cambridge
We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big. View quote
Austan Goolsbee
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. View quote
Agnes Smedley
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again. View quote
Agnes Smedley
You cannot play with fire. View quote
Al-Waleed bin Talal
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire. View quote
Bill Ayers
Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is. View quote
Bobby Flay
Keep the fire of your testimony of the restored gospel and your witness of our Redeemer burning so brightly that our children can warm their hands by the fire of your faith. View quote
Boyd K. Packer
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes. View quote
Brian Blessed
If you write an original, it's like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it's like the oil well's on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that. (Brian Helgeland)
There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game. View quote
Ben Roethlisberger
Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly. View quote
Chad Kroeger
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back. View quote
Chadwick Boseman
Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. View quote
Chris Hadfield
The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it. View quote
Cindy Gallop
Above all, in my anger, I was sad. Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying -- valiantly, fruitlessly -- to eradicate. View quote
Claire Messud
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. View quote
Clive Thompson
I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once. View quote
Creed Bratton
Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential. View quote
Caroline Paul
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive. (Caroline Paul)
In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree. View quote
Caroline Paul
Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot. View quote
Cate Tiernan
My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. View quote
David Douglas Duncan