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

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be – and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Distance is to love as wind is to fire. Blows out the little ones and fans the big ones.

But from my grave across my brow
Plays no wind of healing now,
And fire and ice within me fight
Beneath the suffocating night.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire…

Three words, Ignis aurum probat. “Fire tests gold.” The rest of the phrase: “. . . and adversity tests the brave.

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

It’s colder than the hinges of hell a thousand years before the first fire was lighted.

Lord, I’m on fire, they think that I’m Satan

I burned my own damn finger pokin’ someone else’s fire.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir

A president can start a war under relatively specious circumstances, and once American soldiers are under fire, Americans will support the soldiers and support the president.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn’t control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

When there’s smoke around, there’s fire to be found. Where there’s thunder, there’s lightning to beware of. And where there’s Ferrari, there’s speed to be had.

The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

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

If my body was on fire, you’d watch me burn down in flames

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Money is in some respects life’s fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I’ve been putting out the fire with gasoline.

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,” returned madame; “but don’t tell me.

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

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire

A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon – it won’t work and you can’t fire it.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it’s that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

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

The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod — and yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly worth the saving.

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is a force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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.

I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

One can no more set fire to the sea,
than convince people of the dangers of happiness – And yet, we know that though the smallest shock is fatal
to the filled up bottle, that shock will not break
the empty one.

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.

And hate on me and my attire. I just put on, for me and my city. And ever since, shit been on fire.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.

There are roses in between my thighs and fire that surrounds you.