Fire Quotes

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri

Men, Envy, Pride

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

Mother, Country, Fall

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.
Marco Rubio

Down, Country, Whole

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

May, Reason, Idea

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
Ovid

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

Heart, Human, Different

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Bono

Deep, Down, Put

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
Linda McCartney

Peace, Live, Big

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

Mean, Heard, Richard

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Before, Flood, Noah

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Rita Rudner

Women, Same, Ugly

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

Positive, Negative, Used

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
Gary Oldman

Family, Money, Anger

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

Men, Strong, Adversity

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy, Cruel, Grave

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin

Art, Before, Artist

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse

Liberty, Pleasure, Comfort

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History, Someone, Human

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
Abbie Hoffman

Free, Means, Theatre

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Greatest, Victory, Accept

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
Imran Khan

Try, Put, House

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren

End, Fight, Ashes

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
Hedy Lamarr

Father, Tell, Child

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Through, Dangerous, Ways

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum

Life, Money, Excellent

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

Good, Bad, Water

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne

Lost, Doubt, Him

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
Bruce Springsteen

Between, Against, Optimism

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
George Lucas

Making, Film, Elements

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