Fire quotes

“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.” Terry Pratchett

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

“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.” Steve Jobs

“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.” Socrates

“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.” Bruce Lee

“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.” Cyrano de Bergerac

“ Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.” Ludwig van Beethoven

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

“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?” Stephen Hawking

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

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

“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.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“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.” Lord Byron

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

“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.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

“As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” William Shakespeare

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” William Shakespeare

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

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

“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.” Dennis Quaid

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

“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.” Winston Churchill

“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.” George Washington Bush

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.” Napoleon Bonaparte

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