Fire Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  Anger, Wind, Water

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

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• Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

  Elinor Glyn

  Iron, Delay, Return

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by the streamers of the white cloud And whispers of the wind in the listening sky. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun, they travelled a short while toward the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

  Stephen Spender

  Heart, Air, Wind

  'I think continually of those who were truly great' (1933)

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• In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

  David Hume

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  1739 A Treatise of Human Nature, bk.1, pt.4, section 7.

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• I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

  Henry Vaughan

  Soul, Common, Made

  1650 Silex Scintillans, 'The Garland'.

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• The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

  Lucian

  Effort, Frying Pans, Frying

  Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.

  John Ashbery

  Home, People, Steps

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.2, Ardent Media

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• The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much as those who believe it dangerous to go into it, we can hardly avoid thinking his scepticism to be feigned, and not real.

  Thomas Reid

  Real, Believe, Thinking

  Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton (1967). “Philosophical Works”, p.489, Georg Olms Verlag

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• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Sight, House, Flying

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• 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

  Fall, Desire, Bread

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

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• To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same to you creates what might be called an unassimilable memory: a memory that floats on daily life the way an oil stain floats on rainwater. Stir the rain barrel, scatter the oil into countless drops, disperse it all you like, but it will not mix; and eventually the slick comes back, as loathsomely intact as it ever was.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Memories, Rain, Heart

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.176, Macmillan

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Light

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Judah P. Benjamin

  Character, Justice, Effort

  "The Emergence of Lincoln". Book by Allan Nevins, p. 387, 1950.

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• Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Jesus, Prayer, Baptism

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

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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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• The child, in danger of the fire, just clings to the fireman, and trusts to him alone. She raises no question about the strength of his limbs to carry her, or the zeal of his heart to rescue her; but she clings. The heat is terrible, the smoke is blinding, but she clings; and her deliverer quickly bears her to safety. In the same childlike confidence cling to Jesus, who can and will bear you out of danger from the flames of sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Children, Heart

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “Around the Wicket Gate”, p.12, Whitaker House

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• Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Country, Men, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked
  of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open
  to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject
  to control?…What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of
  talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes
  into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Powerful, Creativity, Technology

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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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• 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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• 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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• God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Earthquakes, Voice, Storm

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.34

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