Quotes by Fire I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once. Creed Bratton ironcollegefire I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job. Criss Angel snakesfirejobs I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out. Criss Jami firefearpeople Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Cus D'Amato your-best-friendobstaclesfire A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze. Cus D'Amato firesportsboys Emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Cus D'Amato emotionfirehouse The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire. Cus D'Amato preparationfirehero I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are a lot more shades of gray in this world than I ever knew about. I’ve learned that sometimes, when you´re afraid but you keep on moving forward, that’s the biggest kind of courage there is. And finally, I’ve learned that life isn’t really about failure and success. It’s about being present, in the moment when big things happen, when everything changes, including myself. Cynthia Hand moving-forwardfireweather The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires. Cyprian hellbodyfire Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he? Cyrano de Bergerac prometheusfireheaven To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire. Cyrano de Bergerac firesighthouse Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man? Czeslaw Milosz firesleepmen What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world. D. H. Lawrence shiningfiresex We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last. D. H. Lawrence sunsetfirewater To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them. D. H. Lawrence our-worldfirescience This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, D. H. Lawrence flamesfirespring A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at. D. H. Lawrence firehousemen So slowly the hot elephant hearts D. H. Lawrence elephantsfireheart Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy. Daisaku Ikeda flamesfireheart I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad. Dakota Fanning firemenbelieve«3132333435363738394041»
