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I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.
— Martina Mcbride
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
— Cecily McMillan
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.
— Ivan Goncharov
It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.
— Alessandro Baricco
The Wanderlust has got me ... by the belly-aching fire
— Robert W. Service
For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more.
— Martin Luther
The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.
— Thomas Jefferson
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.
— Anton Chekhov
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire.Yeah, that was the life. — Josh Lanyon
If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.
— Nancy Willard
Behold how much wood is kindled by how small a fire, and the tongue is fire.
— Marilynne Robinson
You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.
— Charlie Sheen
O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
— Siegfried Sassoon
Free-flowing booze consumed by many Las Vegas visitors pours fuel on the asshole fire.
— Tim Dressen
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
— Hedy Lamarr
Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.
— David Sedaris
What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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 — Thomas Hardy
Dead grass is awakened by fire,dead earth is awakened by rain.
One life will give way to another,
the cycle will begin again. — Susan Dennard
Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
— Paulo Coelho
The Dothraki believed the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night.
— George R R Martin
the stars were horses made of fire, a great herd that galloped across the sky by night. As
— George R R Martin
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
— Karen Maitland
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...
— Marguerite De Navarre
Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends.
— Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.
— Ronald Reagan
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.
— Jean Burden
But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.
— Garth Brooks
I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.
— Lauren Oliver
And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret - to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
Few men are killed by the bayonet, many are scared by it. Bayonets should be fixed when the fire fight starts
— George S. Patton
Mr. Campion felt that among the ordeals by fire and by water there should now be numbered the ordeal by dinner at Socrates Close.
— Margery Allingham
Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd byCamp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
— Pema Chodron
- because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..
— Daphne Du Maurier
She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.
— Lucinda Riley
he had a strong premonition that ship had already sailed, been set on fire by pirates and sunk into the sea.
— Dana Marton
You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.
— Jennifer Stone
The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
— Huston Smith
When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.
— Larry Watson
Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week.
— Kim Cooper
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
— James Cash Penney
We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
— J.M. Barrie
If our eyes were not blinded by the cataracts of the flesh - we would see horses of fire, and chariots of fire, round about the Lord's beloved.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
An Eleanor, she told herself triumphantly, who belongs, who is talking easily, who is sitting by the fire with her friends.
— Shirley Jackson
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in public, and by men.
— Michael Pollan
As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.
— John Fowles
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
— William Golding
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
— Russell Kirk
I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.
— Ann Richards
It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.
— Ben H. Winters
Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.
— Kristin Cashore
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
— Amin Maalouf
By New Year's Eve, we're so done going out we usually just light a fire, play one last card game, and watch the ball drop in our jammies.
— Mary Page Keller
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,life passed through the fire of thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maybe tonight, maybe tonight by the fire all alone you and I. Nothing around but the sound of heart and your sighs.
— Neil Diamond
Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
— Andy Goldsworthy
The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.
— Harry Haskell
If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.
— Hayes McClerkin
The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning.
— Emil Brunner
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.
— Ambrose Bierce
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth ... It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
— Michael D. O'Brien
In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.
— John Speed
An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.
— Gautama Buddha
Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
— Bob Nelson
A man, as he ages, is ready for his pipe and slippers by the fire. A woman becomes an unstoppable force.
— Cara Louise
In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid
— William Shakespeare
Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.
— R. Scott Bakker
Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.
— Phillips Brooks
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
— Charles Simmons
