Quotes by Fire Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston. Georg Ernst Stahl principlesfirehot You draw the mystical kundalini from the earth. Earth is an element. Fire, air, earth, water, and ether - the mystical kundalini comes through them all. Frederick Lenz buddhismfireair If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood. George Ade stakeswoodsfire A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other. George Bernard Shaw humorpaperfire Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. Geoffrey Chaucer coldfire When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. George Carey fireprayer You may fire when you are ready Gridley. George Dewey navyfiremay The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation. Frederick Lenz wallfireair The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. George Edward Woodberry emotioncreativefire Forms of government are forged mainly in the fire of practice, not in the vacuum of theory. They respond to national character and to national realities. George F. Kennan firecharacterreality There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme. Gautama Buddha lightmoonfire There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. Gautama Buddha buddhistpassionfire Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself. George Gaylord Simpson understandingfiretree If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire. George Carlin sarcasmsarcasticfire I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. George H. W. Bush knowingfirethinking We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce. George Lincoln Rockwell ironhatefire A crooked log makes a strait fire. George Herbert crookedfire There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel. George Eliot fuelpassionfire The best fire doesna flare up the soonest. George Eliot passionfirepatience Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease. George Eliot strongsoulfire«5455565758596061626364»
