Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Henri Frederic Amiel

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
George Orwell

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
Rudyard Kipling

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
Donald Trump

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
John Keats

Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron