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

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
W. E. B. Du Bois

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Leon Trotsky

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David Bowie

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
Gene Simmons

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

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

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

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

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
Ken Kesey

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.
Heraclitus

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

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp