Fire Quotes
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat.Apple LaserWriter manual
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.Publilius Syrus
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.Auguste Rodin
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - As the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. Maxims.La Rochefoucauld
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.William Shakespeare
It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.Marvin E. Wolfgang
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.Napoleon I
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
Husbands are like fires - They go out when unattended.Zsa Zsa Gabo
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.Michel de Montaigne
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.Maitri Upanishads
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.Thomas Fulle
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.Dorothy Parke
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
Out of the frying pan into the fire.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
