Fire Quotes - Page 13

• Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Home, Sparks, Hope And Love

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• Let's kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Light, Daddy, Tire

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• If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

  John Calvin

  Gold, God With Us, Tests

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• Here is a fearful enemy of God and man — the liquor traffic; it makes ruthless war upon the people; it blasts and destroys their homes as with pestilence and fire; it kills savagely, cruelly, more than a hundred thousand of them every year; robbing them first and driving wives and children to rain and despair.

  Neal S. Dow

  Children, War, Rain

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• The world is on fire.

  John McCain

  World

  Twitter post from May 23, 2017

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• Eloquence may set fire to reason.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  May, Reason, Incitement

  "Gitlow v. People of New York, 268 U.S. 652". Judicial opinion, 1925.

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• Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Games, Katniss

  "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

  Kristin Hannah

  Light, Watches, World

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.321, Macmillan

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• He knew that his wings could ignite at any moment, but the closer he came to touching the fire, the more he sensed that he was fulfilling his destiny. As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it.

  Paul Auster

  Mean, Night, Destiny

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Book of Illusions”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

  John Green

  Believe, Writing, Darkness

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• We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.

  Claudia Gray

  Hate, Our Love

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• I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Writing, Long, Looks

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• I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  May, Quench, Feels

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• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Believe, House

  "Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles' Creed". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 13-14, 2005.

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• Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

  Paul L. Maier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Paul L. Maier (1991). “The Flames of Rome”, p.298, Kregel Publications

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• The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

  Jonathan Schell

  Hair, Years, Waiting

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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• The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Pain, Doe, Hell

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part I, Question 10, Article 3, Ad. 2), 1485.

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• I was born, to handle situations the way I do. I've always been the type who can be thrown in the fire and make it out. Any time I'm given an opportunity, I feel I'm ready.

  Roman Reigns

  Opportunity, Way, Born

  Source: www.ign.com

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• There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Fuel, Speak

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.191

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• The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.

  George Eliot

  Patience, Passion, Flare Up

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.67

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• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

  George Eliot

  Strong, Soul, Sun

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.244

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• I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease.

  George Eliot

  Math, Men, People

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.131, Wordsworth Editions

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• A burnt dog dreads the fire.

  Willa Cather

  Dog, Dread

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.3994, Smashbooks

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• Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Military, War, Blessing

  "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha)". Book by Miguel de Cervantes (Part I, Book III, Chapter 4), 1612.

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