Fire Quotes - Page 24

• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  People, House, World

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• Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wind, Light, Stuff

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria”, p.2460, e-artnow

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• Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Brave, Departed

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20

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• Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Bible, Gratitude, Powerful

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Religious, Water, Effort

  SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA (1969). “ONLY ONE YEAR”

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• What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.

  Francis Quarles

  Night, Sea, Giving

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• My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind.
  Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind.
  What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?
  This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

  Francis Quarles

  Wind, Soul, Mind

  Francis Quarles, William Walker Wilkins (1866). “Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man”, p.15

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• When two agree in their desire,
  One sparke will set them both on fire.

  Francis Quarles

  Two, Desire, Agree

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• flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

  Marya Mannes

  Sex, Men, Dating

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

  Erica Jong

  Licking, Toes, Inferno

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• But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.

  John Ruskin

  Moving, Men, Dust

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.237

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• In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

  Mary Oliver

  Two, Ability To Love, Given

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autumn comes to the sea with a fresh blaze of phosphorescence, when every wave crest is aflame. Here and there the whole surface may glow with sheets of cold fire, while below schools of fish pour through the water like molten metal.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, School, Autumn

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Anxiety, Mind

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.127, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• 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

  Change, Thinking, Rose

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire,
  As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.

  Samuel Rogers

  Summer, Clouds, Inspire

  Samuel Rogers (1849). “Poems”

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• Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.

  Jeremy Collier

  Water, Elements, Conscience

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire; and chewing is designed remorselessly to finish what killing and cooking began. People naturally prefer that none of this should happen to them. Behind every rule of table etiquette lurks the determination of each person present to be a diner, not a dish.

  Margaret Visser

  Determination, Animal, Vegetables

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

  Hosea Ballou

  Envy, Soul, Acid

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Flames, Shooting Up

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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• Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Talking, Apples, Burning

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Light, Flames, Intelligence

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.

  Joseph Joubert

  Religion, Example, Alive

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• the islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Islands, Air, Water

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Tools, Sticks, Prose

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