Fire Quotes

All empires are created of blood and fire.

- Pablo Escobar

To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.

- Pablo Neruda

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

- St. Catherine of Siena

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.

- Omar Khayyam

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

- George Bernard Shaw

You should not look at what the person used to do, rather you should look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged down about people's pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allaah, “You created me from fire and you created him from clay”.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

- Carl Jung

There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood - you've got to go through the test - you've got to go through the struggle that you might decrease and he might increase.

- T. D. Jakes

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

- Abraham Lincoln

But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey published by his wife.

- Kwame Nkrumah

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown.

- Smith Wigglesworth

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

- Vladimir Lenin

In the 70s, GEORGE CLINTON and PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC and EARTH WIND & FIRE, we were very serious about our music and who we were trying to touch. I think that's why the music of the 70s has not died - because it has a rejuvenating quality to it.

- Maurice White

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

- John Wesley

Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

- Kristin Cashore

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.

- Fred Hampton

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

- Saint John Chrysostom

A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

- Cus D'Amato

You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!

- Reinhard Bonnke

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

- Saint Augustine

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

- Rumi

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

- Edmund Burke

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

- George Orwell

Let us not tire of preaching love; it is the force that will overcome the world. Let us not tire of preaching love. Though we see that waves of violence succeed in drowning the fire of Christian love, love must win out; it is the only thing that can.

- Oscar Romero

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

- W. Edwards Deming

You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We’re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you’re afraid of socialism, you’re afraid of yourself.

- Fred Hampton

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

- Adi Shankara

The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.

- William Booth

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

- Cus D'Amato

It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

- Frederick Herzberg

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

- Pamela Hansford Johnson

A house with no fireplace is a house without a heart.

- Gladys Taber

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

- Sun Tzu

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

- Mary Oliver

There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.

- Charles Grandison Finney

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

- Dylan Thomas

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

- Hermann Goring

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

- Gustav Mahler

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

- Abu Hurairah

We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

- Fred Hampton

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

- Mason Cooley

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

- Pitbull

In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

- John of the Cross

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

- Paul Valery

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

- John Wesley

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

- George Washington

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

- Sandra Cisneros

A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

- William Golding