Fire Quotes - Page 43

While big corporations make huge, tax-free profits, taxes for the everyday working person skyrocket. While politicians take free trips around the world, those same politicians cut back food stamps for the poor. While politicians increase their salaries, millions of people are being laid off. I do not understand a government so willing to spend millions of dollars on arms, to explore outer space, even the planet Jupiter, and at the same time close down day care centers and fire stations.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

The means for maintaining perfect love is to accomplish frequent acts of love. Fire is kindled by the wood we cast into it and love is enkindled by acts of love.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss

I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world, not by its constructed theology, not by its Sabbath services, not by its arguments to convince the intellect, but by its simple story of Jesus' love, by the Cross, the Cross--God's hammer, God's fire.

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.

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.

Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

Barack Obama's vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire'and the computer will say, 'Specify type of goat.'