Fire Quotes - Page 27

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.

Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

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.

You know nothing, Jon Snow

Neurons that fire together wire together.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

O Trinity, eternal Trinity! Fire, abyss of love... Was it necessary that you should give Even the Holy Trinity as food for souls?... You gave us not only your Word Through the Redemption and in the Eucharist, But you also gave yourself In the fullness of love for your creature.

Let the wave of memory, the storm of desire, the fire of emotion pass through without affecting your equanimity.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection.

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

So much as one person with a contrary spirit to God is enough to affect all the meetings - that the revival fire did not flow until that person broke and confessed, or the Lord removed him.