fire quotes

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

“Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.”

“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.”

“If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. ”

 Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? ”

“It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. ”

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

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.”

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”

“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.”

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. ”

“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”

Fire quotes - I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

“I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.”

“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”

“There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ”

Fire quotes - I’m fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. I’m not perfect but I got a desire to improve.

“I’m fire on the move, a tire looking smooth. I’m not perfect but I got a desire to improve.”

“When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ”

“The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. ”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”

“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”