Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.

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

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.

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

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?

Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

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

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

I'm a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.

Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire.

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed. Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need.

Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!

What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

A great storm puts out a little fire but feeds a strong one. Trials conquer weak faith but grow a strong faith.

The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.

When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

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.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

I'll tell you, 'Fire Walk With Me' is the one for 'Twin Peaks' fans. It's much more haunted than the TV series.

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