100+ Fire Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Ann Landers (1978). “The Ann Landers encyclopedia, A to Z: improve your life emotionally, medically, sexually, socially, spiritually”, Galahad Books

topic: Love, Loyalty, Fire, Mutual Benefit, Time Love

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

- Ann Richards

topic: Fire, Lost

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Prayer, Reading, Fire

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

- Ann Wilson

source: FaceBook post by Ann Wilson from Nov 12, 2013

topic: Art, Player, Fire

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

- Ann-Marie MacDonald

source: Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fire, Views, Funeral

You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Heart, Thinking, Fire

I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

- Anna Kendrick

topic: Artist, Thinking, Fire, Arcades, Arcade Fire

Sometimes change came all at once, with a sound like a fire taking hold of dry wood and paper, with a roar that rose around you so you couldn't hear yourself think. And then, when the roar died down, even when the fires were damped, everything was different.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Change, Thinking, Fire

He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.

- Anna Sewell

topic: Horse, Children, Fire

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Jeannine Hensley (1967). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Press

topic: Anger, Fire, Wind

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Fire, Pet, Gains

People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Eye, Fire, Doors

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." â€” Lestat de Lioncourt

- Anne Rice

topic: Past, Fire, Vision, Alluring, Amour

I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy me. But then again, they might not.

- Anne Rice

topic: Fire, Light, Vampire, Lestat, Vampire Lestat

For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else might be possible? Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

- Annie Proulx

source: "The Shipping News". Book by Annie Proulx, 1993.

topic: Pain, Ocean, Fire, Fly Away

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Fire, Rivers, Building

Love is the most necessary of all virtues. Love in the person who preaches the word of God is like fire in a musket. If a person were to throw a bullet with his hands, he would hardly make a dent in anything; but if the person takes the same bullet and ignites some gunpowder behind it, it can kill. It is much the same with the word of God. If it is spoken by someone who is filled with the fire of charity- the fire of love of God and neighbor- it will work wonders.

- Anthony Mary Claret

topic: Love Is, Fire, Hands, Fire Of Love, Claret

They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.

- Anthony Quinn

topic: Lying, Men, Fire, Death Coming, Fire Inside

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Men, Fire, History

In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Science, Fire, Light, Disengagement, Decomposition

The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself.

- Antoine Rivarol

topic: Fire, Vitality, Devotion

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Wall, Gun, Fire

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashesâ€¦. I burnt my fingers.

- Antonio Machado

source: Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Fire, Ashes, Fingers

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

- Anzia Yezierska

source: Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

topic: Passion, Men, Fire

No - the light in Tamani's eyes was much more than a reflection. It was the fire that melted her anger and devastated her resolve, every single time she saw it.

- Aprilynne Pike

topic: Eye, Reflection, Fire

Righteousness is a fuel that, when it has some pitch in it of ambitious rivalry and the damper's left open to envy's draught, makes a hot enough fire to cook somebody's goose in quite a hurry.

- Ardyth Kennelly

source: Ardyth Kennelly (1956). “Marry Me, Carry Me”

topic: Fire, Envy, Ambitious

Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

- Arenda L. Wright Allen

source: "Read the Incredibly Moving Opinion From the Judge Who Just Struck Down Virginia’s Gay-Marriage Ban" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2014.

topic: Gay, Fire, People

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

- Aristophanes

topic: Women, Fire, Untamed, Panthers

The fire at Lipara, Xenophanes says, ceased once for sixteen years, and came back in the seventeenth. And he says that the lavastream from Aetna is neither of the nature of fire, nor is it continuous, but it appears at intervals of many years.

- Aristotle

topic: Fire, Years, Sixteen

For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.

- Aristotle

topic: Science, Fire, Two

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: Father, Fire, Small Business, Fire Extinguishers

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Cat, Thinking, Fire, Anything Worth Doing

You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Believe, Fire, Vision, Clear Vision

During the time I was in office we have seen the beginning of the elimination of the fire season completely and are having fires all year round. I think we have seen the major problem of the destruction of land and property and lives that is a major problem because we don't have the resources for that many fires and we don't have the resources and the manpower to fight those fires throughout the year.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Fighting, Thinking, Fire, Manpower

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Fire, Color, Red, Color Red

Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond

- Arsi Nami

topic: Passion, Fire, People, Backstabbers, Above And Beyond

We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Fire, Discovery, Space, Space Travel

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Stars, Thinking, Fire, Milky Way

Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Children, Fire, Ice, Fire And Ice

I dream in fire but work in clay.

- Arthur Machen

source: Arthur Machen (2018). “The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories”, p.369, Oxford University Press

topic: Dream, Fire, Clay

And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.

- Arthur Plotnik

source: Arthur Plotnik (1984). “The elements of editing: a modern guide for editors and journalists”, Scribner Paper Fiction

topic: Fire, Shows, Editing And Writing

The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions can be smelled, fondled, listened to; if what he brings back from beyond has form, he gives it form; if it has none, he gives it none. A language must be foundâ€¦of the soul, for the soul and will include everything: perfumes, sounds colors, thought grappling with thought

- Arthur Rimbaud

topic: Animal, Fire, Color

Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

- Arthur Rock

topic: Jobs, Fire, Visionaries, National Treasure

The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

topic: Fall, Fire, Desire

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

- Arthur Symons

source: Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

topic: Love, Heart, Fire, Windy

Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: School, Fire, Flames, Mighty Wind

From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes, ... still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed... resting place for the heart and mind but in the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God.

- Arthur W. Pink

topic: Heart, Fire, Land

The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

- Arthur W. Pink

source: Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

topic: Fire, Lakes, Wish, Evangelists, Saviour

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

- Arun Manilal Gandhi

topic: Cutting, Fire, Burning, Inferno

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

- Assata Shakur

topic: Believe, Sweat, Fire, Fire Of Love

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

- Atul Gawande

topic: Fire, Skills, People, Trainees

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

- Aubrey de Grey

topic: Fire, Desire, Wheels, Demonstrating

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Believe, Fire, Order

But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

- August Spies

source: Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

topic: Thinking, Fire, Flames, Blazing, Labor Movement

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

source: Southwestern Art Vol. 6, p. 20, 1977.

topic: Art, Creativity, Fire

I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Jobs, Fire, Hands

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

- Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

source: Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1840). “Georgia scenes: characters, incidents, in the first half century of the republic”, p.24

topic: Horse, Loss, Fire, Expressive, Countenance