Quotes by Fire Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sunsetfiresky Books written out of fire give me a great deal of pleasure. You get the sense that the world for these writers could not have continued if the book hadn't been written. When you come across a book like that it is a privilege. Hisham Matar firegivingbook Love is like fire. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen firelove-islife Genius is initiative on fire. Holbrook Jackson initiativegeniusfire If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. Hollis Frampton neuronsnervesfire They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! Friedrich Nietzsche lightningfiremouths Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. Hippocrates ironmedicinefire Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt. Holly Black girlfireclever Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard. Henry Ford firedoewar Somewhere, someone isn’t impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You’re unbelievably boring to more people than you’ll ever know. Henry Rollins firemenpeople Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived. Honor Tracy eyefireeurope Genius is intuition on fire. Holbrook Jackson intuitiongeniusfire When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not. Haruki Murakami wake-upfirefeelings My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths. Horace Bushnell firebiblediscovery If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. Horace Traubel coldfireworld The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome. Henry David Thoreau romefiremen Storytelling is what lights my fire. Hope Davis storytellinglightfire What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates humorousfirefunny The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes. Horace Greeley adversityfirespring Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire. Honore de Balzac flamesgeniusfire«6667686970717273747576»
