Fire Quotes - Page 153

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?” “Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.

Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked. 'He has a song,' the man replied. 'He is the prince that was promised, and his is the song of ice and fire.

He was no dragon, Dany thought, curiously calm. Fire cannot kill a dragon

You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

Let anger's fire be slow to burn.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.

Silke doth quench the fire in the Kitchin.

Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]

To take the nuts from the fire with the dogges foot. [To take the nuts from the fire with the dog's foot.]

Water a farre off quencheth not fire.

I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.