F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fire and cooking were necessary precursors to our use of food as social lubricant, as facilitator of culture and connection.”
Source: A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
“Fire and earth are the most sacred of the natural elements. One must cross their path with caution and respect.”
Source: Natural Elements
“Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Fire and ice. Cruel and kind. Distant and close. Forbidden and accepted. Totally physical but also completely ethereal. My hands caressed up his chest, fingertips exploring the heavenly dip and swale of each groove. Coarse hair on soft skin and billowing muscles.”
Source: Falcon
“Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.”
“Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.”
“Fire and light. With all our safety measures, and all our weapons, it's the primitive things that keep us safe.”
Source: Arclight
“Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.”
“Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.”
“Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice.”
“Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.”
“Fire and water do not mix, neither can you mix judgment of others with the desire to repent. If a man commits a sin before you at the very moment of his death, pass no judgment, because the judgment of God is hidden from men. It has happened that men have sinned greatly in the open but have done greater deeds in secret, so that those who would disparage them have been fooled, with smoke instead of sunlight in their eyes.”
“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.”
Source: Through a Glass, Darkly
“Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.”
“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.”
“fire and wild and art and love and sugar and soul.”
“Fire, ashes, shards.”
Source: Ashes
“Fire beats roses again.”
Source: The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy
“Fire burns out if you don't stoke it and romance fizzles if you don't stroke it.”
“Fire can destroy everything, but it is also the most important creative force.”
“Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.”
Source: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
“Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned.”
Source: Hunted
“Fire causes burning, lightning causes thunder, winds cause waves, and gravity causes bodies to fall. Such connections between an effect and its cause form the cornerstone of scientific thinking, both modern and classical. But this notion of causality is one which is specifically rejected by Asharite doctrine, and the most articulate and effective opponent of physical causality was AI-Ghazzali”
Source: Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality
“Fire children are often told to "settle down", "be still", or - even worse - diagnosed with ADD when they may simply have a very energetic disposition from being a Fire element.”
Source: The Five Elements: Understand Yourself and Enhance Your Relationships with the Wisdom of the World's Oldest Personality Type System
“Fire consumes, but cold preserves.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Fire destroys that which feeds it.”
Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil
“Fire . . . Does that light by itself?”
Source: Girls' Last Tour, Vol. 1
“Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.”
Source: The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee
“Fire, Earth, Air, Water -- one or more of these elements may make you restless. You need to spend them properly to find peace. To spend fire, burn outdated structures, taboos and so on. To spend Earth, build a structure, a good habit and so on. Spend air through creativity, spend water through serving and healing people.”
“fire energy girls…
made of fire, spark, confidence and flame,
they breathe in the wild and hold the essence of brave,
so beautifully untamed… how they give this life
a pulse and light up your way… they will just
never, ever leave you unchanged.”
“FIRE
Every part of her
That changed
That got scraped off
Because of schoolyard laughter
Or the advice of grown-ups
Long gone —
And the pain of friends
Already dead.
She collected those bits off the floor,
Like wood shavings.
And she made them into fuel.
Into fire.
And burned.
Bright enough to see for ever.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Fire failure by fighting falsehood. Forget the fears; Fix the future; Flee from fake friends. There is nothing called half-truth. Whatever looks like a lie is a lie!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!”
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Fire false friends. They are in to fast-forward your fall and failure.”
Source: Shaping the dream
“Fire feeds on obstacles. A small fire is soon extinguished; a great fire consumes whatever is thrown into it and burns higher.”
Source: Meditations
“Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.”
“Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.”
“Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.”
Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“Fire in a soul to serve God, is better than a soul in fire that refused.”
“Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.”
“Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.”
“Fire is a good companion for the mind.”
Source: Collected Poems: 1930–1973
“Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.”
“Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.”
Source: The Giant's House
“Fire is a symbol for so much. It's a symbol for change. It's a symbol for destruction. Out of the ashes of that comes an opportunity to start over. It's one of the greatest metaphors in nature that you can possibly lean on, especially as a songwriter. You're trying to describe either something coming to a complete and utter end or something that is in flux, or something that's on the verge of becoming something else.”
“Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.”
Source: Ill Wind
“Fire is an important component of Hindu traditions. From the sacred fire around which you walk during your wedding tot he final lighting of the funeral pyre, it occupies center stage at significant life events.”
Source: Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery
“fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while”
Source: The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel