Fire Quotes - Page 16

Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.

As a result of the cold, the machine-guns were no longer able to fire...the result of all this was a panic...The battle worthiness of our infantry is at an end

Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.

Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

When there are doubters, it always fuels the fire a little bit. When people say you can't do something, if you are a competitor, that drives you.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.

Save others, snatching them out of the fire.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

There's no smoke without fire.

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.