F Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with F. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Fire is catching!”
Source: Mockingjay
“Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!”
“Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.”
“Fire is fire.”
“Fire is next akin to smoke.”
“Fire is no laughing matter. In a drunken attempt to appear womanly, my neighbor tried to burn her pubes off when she was fifteen, but it hurt too much to get it completely smooth. My friend had sex with her two years later and said her clit looked like a chestnut. I’ve been pro-bush ever since.”
Source: Catapult Soul
“Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.”
“Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!”
Source: Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus
“Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.”
“Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness”
“Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.”
Source: Critical Path
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
“Fire is the tongue of God that warms the emptiness of heaven.”
Source: Svet u nigdini
“Fire is the voice of god, speaking in tongues. Fire is the liberator of water, slipping the earthly bonds. Fire is the memory of stone, being released to the heavens. Fire is the mother of the Earth, born of desire. Fire is the seducer of wind, dancing in abandon for its beloved. Fire is the illuminator, the protector, the destroyer, and the giver of all life.”
Source: Painted Oxen
“Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)
“Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”
Source: Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen
“Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.”
Source: The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned
“Fire like a pleading, that says, please, please, tell me I’m wrong, because it can’t possibly be true for you as well, and if it’s true for you too, then you’re the cruelest man alive.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Fire like fear, like panic, like one more minute of this and I'll die if he doesn't knock at my door, but I'd sooner he never knock than knock now.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.”
“Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.”
“fire may have burned the book
but not the story incandescent”
Source: symbiosis : a sister's psychogeographical grief
“Fire needs to burn itself in order to burn anything else, it must carry injury in its core before it gives it to the rest of the world, there lies it weakness. - The Weakness of Evil”
Source: The Sunrise's Commandment
“Fire on anything that moves on the river.”
“Fire on the cavalry!” cried an officer from behind them. Javert raised his musket and glared with one open eye at the approaching horde. His eyes trained on a man in white astride a large bay mount. The Mameluk cavalry had their curved swords wielded, and they shone in the sun like blinding jewels. Javert tried to decide whether he should hit the horse or the rider. Without hesitating, he made his decision and pulled the trigger.
The Mameluk cavalry rider’s arms flung upward as he was struck, and his body hurtled backward as though shoved by an invisible hand. The bay horse galloped onward in terror, leaving its master behind on the sand. The man’s white robes went scarlet around his belly, and he did not move again. Javert hurried to reload his musket, glancing over to see that Masse was sitting and staring over the battlefield in silence.”
Source: Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
“Fire only at close range, and only when your opponent is properly in your sights.”
“Fire opens the gates of victory.”
“Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.”
“Fire requires oxygen. This room has oxygen. Therefore, this room must be on fire.”
“Fire's tears were real now, and there was no helping them, for there was no time. Everything was moving too fast. She crossed the room to him, put her arms around him, clung to him, turning her face to the side, learning all at once that it was awkward to show a person all of one's love when one's nose was broken.
His arms came around her tightly, his breath short and hard against her hair. He held on to the silk of her hair and she pressed herself against him until her panic calmed to something desperate, but bearable.
Yes, she thought to him, understanding now what he'd been about to ask. If you die in the war, I'll keep Hanna in my heart. I promise I won't leave her.”
Source: Fire
“Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.”
Source: Black Swan Green
“Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.”
Source: Fire
“Fire short bursts of 1 to 2 seconds and only when your sights are definitely 'ON.'”
“Fire supposed he needed to be there in order to give rousing speeches and lead the charge into the fray, or whatever is was commanders did in wartime. She resented his competence at something so tragic and senseless. She wished he, or somebody, would throw down his sword and say, 'Enough! This is a silly way to decide who's in charge!' And it seemed to her, as the beds in the healing room filled and emptied and filled, that these battles didn't leave much to be in charge of. The kingdom was already broken, and this war was tearing the broken pieces smaller.”
Source: Fire
“Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.”
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.”
“Fire the doubters out of your life.”
“Fire the voices in your head if they haven’t been working much.”
“Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.”
Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series
“Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.”
“Fire truck with back end on fire drives really fast in circles.”
“Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When you carry that dream when you know what lonesome is looking for a home like a bird in flight.”
“Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.”
“Fire wants to burn
Water wants to flow
Air wants to rise
Earth wants to bind
Chaos wants to devour
Cal wants to live”
Source: The Iron Trial
“Fire was loud – not quiet. You could hear it eating everything it touched.”
Source: Blood Surge: A Vampiric Urban Fantasy Novel
“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”
Source: Basquiat
“Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.”