Fire Quotes - Page 25

• Learn to live, and live to learn,
  Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
  Little tasks make large return.

  Bayard Taylor

  Learning, Ignorance, Tasks

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• Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

  Horace Mann

  Night, Evil, Temptation

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• at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Leaving, Moments, Fit

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• New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Writing, Circles, Perspective

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

  Gladys Taber

  Heart, House, Fireplaces

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

  Nancy Willard

  Prayer, Angel, Borders

  Nancy Willard (2014). “Things Invisible to See: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Mean, Feelings

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top.

  Jerry Rice

  Hurt, Nfl, Giving

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• I wouldn't walk across the street to piss down Don Shula's throat if he was on fire.

  Johnny Unitas

  Nfl, Walks, Throat

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• When the thing is finally sparked, the white man is not there - he's gone. The merchant is not there, the landlord is not there, the one they consider to be the enemy isn't there. So, they knock at his property. This is what makes them knock down the store windows and set fire to things, and things of that sort.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Men, White Man

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• My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

  Robert P. T. Coffin

  Food, Light, Air

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• I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.

  Ben Kingsley

  Healing, Night, Thinking

  "Ben Kingsley Talks Oliver Twist". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. September 20, 2005.

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• I fire people that win gold medals, great champions, everything else, and, you know, it's not - it's not easy. People say oh well it comes easy for me, it doesn't. And it's never fun. It's all to easier though when I don't like somebody or when they're really, really bad then it becomes much easier.

  Donald Trump

  Fun, Winning, People

  "Donald Trump and Bret Michaels Discuss Celebrity Apprentice". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Most of the time a spark of beauty or truth will start a fire of a song but fires rarely produce goodness on their own ... you need to control them and put them to work.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Needs, Sparks

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  Karyn Kusama

  Creative, Curiosity, Progress

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Vision, Shy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.

  Michael Bay

  Littles, Firsts, Cameras

  Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I was acquainted once with a gallant soldier who assured me that his only measure of courage was this: upon the first fire, in an engagement, he immediately looked upon himself as a dead man. He then bravely fought out the remainder of the day, perfectly regardless of all manner of danger, as becomes a dead man to be. So that all the life or limbs he carried back again to his tent he reckoned as clear gains, or, as he himself expressed it, so much out of the fire.

  Laurence Sterne

  Men, Soldier, Gains

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• When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

  Laurence Sterne

  Ignorant, Matter, Sticks

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• Keep away from the fire!

  Laurence Sterne

  Temptation

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.323

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• The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.

  Camille Paglia

  Drama, Fall, Men

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.38, Canongate Books

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• When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Passion, Ashes, Burning

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Orthodoxy, Hell

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.516, Library of Alexandria

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• Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

  Miles Franklin

  May, Sparks, Slippery Slope

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

  Theodore Parker

  Nature, Nice, Butterfly

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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