Fire Quotes - Page 19

• Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say "I know what I am doing" at critical moments.

  James Nicoll

  Critical Moments, Scar, Knows

  Usenet article <dgpfn2$h61$1@reader1.panix.com>, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several factors ignited the fire. For projects coming on line in 2005, record-low interest rates during the design phase 12 to 18 months prior provided additional incentive for development and absorption.

  Brian Gordon

  Real, Design, Records

  4 Copy quote

• Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!

  Daniel Horan

  Selfish, Flower, Moon

  6 Copy quote

• Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to motivate and discipline the rest of the workforce.

  Jim Stanford

  Discipline, Employers, Workforce

  Jim Stanford (2008). “Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism”, Pluto Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

  Ba Jin

  Writing, Burning, Able

  "Literary witness to century of turmoil". www.chinadaily.com.cn. November 24, 2003.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Mother, Father, Angel

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth.

  Aravind Adiga

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  "The White Tiger". Book by Aravind Adiga, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

  Piet Mondrian

  Hate, Inspiration, Mind

  Quoted in F Elgar Mondrian (1968).

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.

  Pope Leo X

  Mother, Teacher, Lying

  "Exsurge Domine". Papal bull by Pope Leo X, 1520.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Canada may be fast-forwarding, jump starting, into a new pattern, a model of communication linkages, a civilization that is more than a grab for power and dominance, a place that could channel the fires of the global wirings, where political alliances are subject to electrical ebb and flow, and the alchemical cultivations of imagination and perception, of the self, could precail of the ideology of capital.

  B. W. Powe

  Communication, Self, Ebb And Flow

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].

  Shams Tabrizi

  World, Abraham, Companion

  "Me and Rumi: The Autobiography of Shams-I Tabrizi". Book by Shams Tabrizi, translated by William C. Chittick, 2004.

  42 Copy quote

  Show source

• For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

  David Zindell

  War, Fall, Men

  "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You could start a fire with the heat between you two.
  You're mistaking bitter animosity for heartfelt affection.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Two, Heartfelt, Heat

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

  6 Copy quote

• In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, December, Chimes

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.145

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Dog, Naps, Choices

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1867). “Queer Little People”, p.147

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.

  Hillel Neuer

  Religious, Rights, Judging

  "UN-real: Saudi Arabia, China among nations vying for seats on Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2013.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Compassion, Doctors

  5 Copy quote

• I was quite intimidated by Ralph Fiennes. I didn't really talk to him while I was doing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and the only thing I did with him was when he stepped on my head. Then I went to this play and he was there. And this girl said, “you've worked with Ralph Fiennes haven't you, Robert?” and I was like, “well, no...” and Ralph said, “yes, I stepped on your head.” And that was the extent of our conversation.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Play, Potters

  6 Copy quote

• I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.

  Hannibal

  Destiny, Rome, Age

  51 Copy quote

• Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Heat

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.658

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give any orthodox church the power, and to-day they would punish heresy with whip, and chain, and fire. As long as a church deems a certain belief essential to salvation, just so long it will kill and burn if it has the power.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Long, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.119, Library of Alexandria

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions. It sanctified, quite like Mohammedism, extermination and tyranny. All this would have been impossible if, like Buddhism, it had looked only for peace and the liberation of souls. It looked beyond; it dreamt of infinite blisses and crowns it should be crowned with before an electrified universe and an applauding God... Buddhism had tried to quiet a sick world with anesthetics; Christianity sought to purge it with fire.

  George Santayana

  War, Ambition, Buddhism

  6 Copy quote

• All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Cheer, Tired

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.348, Open Road Media

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

  Jack Paar

  Funny, California, Crystals

  7 Copy quote