Fire Quotes - page 7

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. (Matthew Simpson)
I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off. View quote
Romain Gary
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking... Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well. View quote
Neil Armstrong
If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification. View quote
William Shockley
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock. View quote
Saint Patrick
Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind. View quote
Robert Jordan
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. View quote
Robert Frost
I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon. (Aleister Crowley)
The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire. View quote
Lucian
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. View quote
Kim Wilde
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god? View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again. View quote
Ramakrishna
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. View quote
Ramakrishna
Not far from the invention of fire... we must rank the invention of doubt. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
If God in his wisdom have brought closeThe day when I must die,That day by water or fire or airMy feet shall fall in the destined snareWherever my road may lie. View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. View quote
William S. Burroughs
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. View quote
Jamie Oliver
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. (George Bernard Shaw)
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. View quote
Ferdinand Foch
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. View quote
Emil Cioran
Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire. View quote
Emil Cioran
The burnt child dreads the fire. View quote
Ben Jonson