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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

Every King, like the river, is evident by his currents — Dora Okeyo

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

Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire. — Anya Seton

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

Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker. — Seth Godin

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

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination. — Adam Gopnik

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

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult. — Cat Power

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 by
Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is a wild fire that cannot be contained by any mere element known to man. — Cristina Marrero

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

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. — Paul De Man

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

I am a Humanist because I believe in heroes, that history is driven by those individuals with fire enough to change the world. — Ada Palmer

Ours was a city on fire with becoming, the suburbs reaching farther from the core by the week. — Kim Cooper

People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire. — Brigham Young

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

A brand from a brand | is kindled and burned, And fire from fire begotten; And man by his speech | is known to men, And the stupid by their stillness. — Anonymous

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
In late December before the fire's daze
Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. — Allen Tate

Sometimes those who lit the spark that began a conflagration must be consumed by it lest the fire burn on indefinitely. — Ken Liu

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

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation. — Gaston Bachelard

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

A woman may get to love by degrees - the best fire does not flare up the soonest. — George Eliot

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. — Ramakrishna

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

Proving by fire is a way of testing for silver and gold, But a man is tested by the mouth of those who praise him. — Anonymous

Now by the laws of war, better than defeating a country by fire and the sword, is to take it without strife. — Sun Tzu

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

Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die. — Ovid

Trial by fire.' Roland whistled, patting Luce on the back. 'Show no fear. — Lauren Kate

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 lot of people don't have fond memories of high school. It's often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones. — Nora Roberts

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

One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring. — Joanna Wiebe

The Cosmos was not made by gods but always was and is eternal fire. — Heraclitus

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble

If we must encounter each other, let's do it the old way - in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us. — Meghan Tifft

I Anoint my tongue by fire. Every evil head rising up against me, I strike you down, in the name of Jesus, somersault from your body. — Ademola Adejumo