Fire Quotes - Page 17

• Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Night, Men

  "The Journal, 1837-1861". Book by Henry David Thoreau, June, 1850, November 24, 2009.

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• See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Moon, Night

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.165

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• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Light, Elements, Purity

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• Warriors! and where are warriors found, If not on martial Britain's ground? And who, when waked with note of fire, Love more than they the British lyre?

  Walter Scott

  Warrior, Notes, Found

  Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.81

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• Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.

  James Joyce

  Soul, Hell, Rage

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

  James Joyce

  Pain, Flames, Long

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

  John Dryden

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393

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• After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.

  Tom Hooper

  Land, Enemy, Grandfather

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• Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Dog, Father, Race

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• When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

  Emma Lazarus

  Angel, Wind, Messengers

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.236, Broadview Press

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• Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Tunnels, Blood

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• Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,The source of motion.

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

  Heat, Source

  "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.

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• Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

  Ani DiFranco

  Schedules, Ends

  Song: Star Matter, Album: Red Letter Year, 2008

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• Let the rabbit of free enterprise out of its velveteen bag and too many people would have to be fired, too much idiocy exposed to the light of judgment or ridicule, too much vanity sacrificed to the fires of efficiency. Such a catastrophe obviously would threaten the American way of life, to say nothing of the belief in free markets.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Light, Vanity, People

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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• Iraq is sort of a situation where you've got a guy who drove the bus into the ditch. You obviously have to get the bus out of the ditch, and that's not easy to do, although you probably should fire the driver.

  Barack Obama

  War, Iraq, Guy

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• If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

  Georges Bernanos

  Answers, Hell, Questioning

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Liberty, Answers, Problem

  "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity". Book by James Fitzjames Stephen, Ch.2, 1873-1874.

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• As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

  Robert Southwell

  Heart, Eye, Winter

  "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

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• My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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• I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

  Frank Abagnale

  Men, Doors, Years

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2002.

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• The immortal mind, superior to his fate, amid the outrage of external things, firm as the solid base of this great world, rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds! Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on! Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky! Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene, the unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck; and ever stronger as the storms advance, firm through the closing ruin holds is way, when nature calls him to the destin'd goal.

  Mark Akenside

  Fate, Blow, Wind

  Mark Akenside, “The Pleasures Of Imagination: Book The Second”

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• I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Oil, Devil

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.

  William James

  Believe, Fighting, Common Sense

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.284, Harvard University Press

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• Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Moving, Succeed

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• We have to create strength where it did not exist before; we have to change our natures, and become new men with new hearts, to be born again. We need a nucleus of men in whom the Shakti is developed to its uttermost extent, in whom it fills every corner of the personality and overflows to fertilise the earth. These, having the fire of Bhawani in their hearts and brains, will go forth and carry the flame to every nook and cranny of our land.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Heart, Men, Flames

  "Bhawani Mandir (1905)". "India's Rebirth : A Selection from Sri Aurobindo's Writings, Talks and Speeches", 3rd edition. Book by Sri Aurobindo, 2000.

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