Quotes by category:Fire

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other." by Horace Greeley

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

humorous fire funny

Ships are blowing up at sea, or catching fire, factories are blowing up. Are these accidents? Are these industrial sabotage? No one really suspected a spy network.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

tragedy real fire

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."

fighting fire years

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

burning fire enthusiasm

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

Henry Ward Beecher

jewels fire morning

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

fire heart hands

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Howard Stringer

workforce japan fire

I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

next-day fire mean

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.

flames perfection fire

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

narcissistic careers fire

Temptation is a fearful word. It indicates the beginning of a possible series of infinite evils. It is the ringing of an alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds may reverberate through eternity. Like the sudden, sharp cry of "Fire!" under our windows by night, it should rouse us to instantaneous action, and brace every muscle to its highest tension.

fire evil night

Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.

Herman Melville

fighting fire years

All you have is your fire by Hozier

All you have is your fire

demon fire needs

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.

flower fire night

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire. by Horace

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

neighbor wall fire

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of li... by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

light fire life