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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
— Heraclitus
All elements have a counterweight. Fire is the counterweight of water. Air is the counterweight of earth. The counterweight of chaos is the soul.
— Holly Black
Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.
— Laura Anne Gilman
Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
— Shams-i Tabrizi
Look for God like a man on fire looks for water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water), can also have the power of beauty.
— Martin R. Lemieux
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
— Robinson Jeffers
My air,my fire,my water,my earth,my soul.
— Brittainy C. Cherry
I wouldn't take him back if he were the last man on earth. I'm 'if he caught fire, and I had a glass of water, I'd drink it slowly and watch' done.
— R.K. Lilley
(voice) ... it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
— Roger L'Estrange
One could say lightning is the marriage of fire and air." "One could say mud is the marriage of water and earth," he said dismissively.
— Sherry Thomas
A nature of fire is to burn, nature of water is to cool, and nature of Nature itself is to preserve.
— Santosh Kalwar
People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.
— Prince Philip
The islands of Italy combine all the elements - fire, water, earth, and air - and that is irresistible.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:
If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...
I would drink IT. — Tuba Javed
If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...
I would drink IT. — Tuba Javed
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
A temperate fire never boils the water.
— Alvin Conway
Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.
— Colman McCarthy
Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live — Cassandra Clare
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live — Cassandra Clare
If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither. — Zakariya Amataya
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither. — Zakariya Amataya
Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!
— Jessica Simpson
All things are formed of patterns, from a single blade of grass to the most majestic of mountains: air and water, fire and earth; Life itself.
— Melissa McPhail
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
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! — Rudyard Kipling
God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!
— Kurt Vonnegut
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
— Aesop
The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
When a fire rises, don't be quick to worry. Find the purpose of the fire, if it's negative, water it down, if positive, feed the flames.
— Travis J. Dahnke
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
— Buffalo Bill
Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames
— Ibrahim Nasrallah
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
— Thomas Brooks
Life and death are natural dualities. Like water and fire, wind and earth. We do not control them, we never will.
— Oumar Dieng
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
— Pamela Hansford Johnson
Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
— Terry Pratchett
Let the sky lead me, the land ground me, the fire cleanse me, and the water feed me.
— Emily R. King
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There is no water to put out the fire. Mi canto la esperanza. - Carlos Santana "Maria Maria
— Don Winslow
For you cannot conquer evil with evil, just as you cannot put out fire by fire, but only by water.
— John Of Kronstadt
I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars
Ships feare fire more then water.
[Ships fear fire more than water.] — George Herbert
[Ships fear fire more than water.] — George Herbert
They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;
— Mark Twain
Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.
— Muhammad
Water is born from the death of air, earth from the death of water, fire from the death of earth, air from the death of fire.
— Rosamund Hodge
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
— James MacDonald
When the house is on fire, do you argue the color of the skin of the man who brings the water?
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is the water of life. Lover is a soul of fire.
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water, — Elif Shafak
The universe turns differently when the fire loves water, — Elif Shafak
You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.
— Pope Shenouda III
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
— George Herbert
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
— Charles Dickens
I have passed through fire and deep water, since we parted. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Your powers don't work in the rain do they? A little bit of water and your fire fizzles out? So Little Miss Perfect does have a weakness after all!
— Heather James
Each Well was linked to one of the five elements: Aether, Earth, Water, Wind, or Fire.
— Susan Dennard
Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.
— Jonathan Maberry
Teaching a fool is like trying to light a fire on water.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I save on food, on water, on fire and on adjetives.
— Jose Eduardo Agualusa
MEN Ah cursed drab, what have you brought this water for? WOMEN What is your fire for then, you smelly corpse? Yourself to burn?
— Aristophanes
The Fire Team's tanks were filled with a jellied gasoline/holy water mix: scourging and sacramental.
— Nick Cutter
Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water.
— George R R Martin
Words are good servants but bad masters.
— Aldous Huxley
Passed through fire and plunged through salt water and offered to the winds of the air; thus were names sealed to these chosen children.
— Robin Hobb
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
— Ludovico Ariosto
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
— Mahavira
A Christian never falls asleep in the fire or in the water, but grows drowsy in the sunshine.
— John Berridge
One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.
— Takuan Soho
Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune to water.
— Michael Z. Williamson
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.
— Bear Grylls
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
Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!
— Alexandre Dumas
Until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?
— Eloise Lownsbery
My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
— Arthur Potts Dawson
I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!
— Terry Pratchett
I saw you dancing out the ocean
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John
Running fast along the sand
A spirit born of earth and water
Fire flying from your hands — Elton John
I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.
— Annie Dillard
There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
— James Stockdale
Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
— William James
Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
— Anne Bradstreet
The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
— Elisabeth Elliot
A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.
— William Shakespeare
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
— Cornelia Funke
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
— Alexandre Dumas
The kiss surrounded her like air, held her up like water, supported her like the earth and burned her like fire.
— Tiffany Reisz
Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.
— Adrianne Ambrose