It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Henry Van Dyke

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Samuel Johnson

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett

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

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
Edward Everett Hale

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu

But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
Steve Spurrier

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

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

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
E. M. Forster

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