There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
James Stockdale

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
Mason Cooley

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.
Joseph Wambaugh

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.
Burt Lancaster

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
John N. Mitchell

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.
Jessica Savitch

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.
Knute Nelson

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
Theodore Sturgeon

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
Amy Grant

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
Kevin Kelly

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.
John Newcombe

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
Frank Luntz

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne