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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along gently. Burning. The sun and every clock on the earth. It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
It doesn’t extinguish the fire with ice. (On n’éteint pas le feu - Avec des glaçons.)
— Charles de Leusse
Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.
— Rick Riordan, The House of Hades
The blaze from the trees spreads to tablecloths and crepe paper - a chain reaction so brilliantly spectacular and terrible, I ache to be a part of it...to devour and destroy,then relish in the plunder.I could do it.I could stand here amid the flames,let them lap at my skin,and laugh in a death-defying haze - because they belong to me. I could watch the world crumble and then dance,triumphant,in the snowfall of ash left behind.All I have to do is set the power free. Escape the chains of my humanity,let madness be my guide.
— A.G. Howard, Unhinged
The mountain trees that grew between the pines were a brilliant blaze of fall colors, like fire against the emerald green of the pines, firs and pruces. And it was, as I'd told myself long ago, the year's last passionate love affair before it grew old and died from the frosty bite of winter.
— V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind
[John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children. 'When I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me to drink, I was a stanger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me, sick and you cared for me, imprisoned and you came to me.'" The words lingered in the air as the fire popped and hissed softly. Sondoz had stopped pacing and stood motionless in a far corner of the room, his face in shadows, firelight glittering on the metallic exoskeleton of his hands. "Don't hope for more than that, John," he said. "God will break your heart.
— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
— Mitchell Kapor
He didn't create the spark, he set the fire
— London Casey (Karolyn James), Stripped
Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.
— Bruce Crown, Forlorn Passions
Despite his care, Reid was still playing with fire, the kind that could without warning sheathe one’s whole life in irreversible conflagration.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
A fire, if it is large enough, is not easily contained. Sparks fly out, and the wind carries them in all directions. Like its brothers, the fire...in Mirusia’s heart spewed forth sparks, and, without her consciously realizing what was happening, they began to ignite that which had no reason to be burned.
— Monika Barbara Potocki, Mirusia
Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking view— vast blue oceans and swirling clouds and sunrises that set half the world on fire.
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.
— Jack Gilbert, Collected Poems
When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don't know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.
— Robert Frost
Love is a forest fire ignited by a firefly
— Dona Mayoora
You're playing with fire," she warned him."That's how I know I'm alive.
— Neil Gaiman, Unnatural Creatures
Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through,Though I am damned for it we two will lieAnd burn, here where the starlings fly
— Charlotte Mew
...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy. We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever...
— Saul Williams
Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.
— Ryan Leonard
You can’t burn down a made-up place.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy...
— Saul Williams
Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
None of them noticed the girl covered in ash as shesnaked along their gardens, setting fire to their begonias.
— Veronica Bane, Mara
We Lesbian Avengers have built this shrine. It stands for our fear. It stands for our grief. It stands for our rage. And it enshrines our intention to live fully and completely as who we are, wherever we are. We take the fire of action into our hearts. And we take it into our bodies. And we stand, here and now, to make it known that we are here, and here we will stay. Our fear does not consume us. Their fire will not consume us. We take that fire, and we make it our own.
— Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
Hatred is like a dam waiting to burst, and when it does, it is more devastating than what you had originally intended.
— Angelina Fleck
It's a poem about moths. But it's also a poem about psychopaths.I get it copied. And stick it in a frame. And now it glowers redoubtably above my desk:an entomological keepsake of the horizons of existence.And the brutal, star-crossed wisdom of those who seek them out.i was talking to a moththe other eveninghe was trying to break intoan electric bulband fry himself on the wireswhy do you fellowspull this stunt i asked himbecause it is the conventionalthing for moths or whyif that had been an uncoveredcandle instead of an electriclight bulb you wouldnow be a small unsightly cinderhave you no senseplenty of it he answeredbut at times we get tiredof using itwe get bored with routineand crave beautyand excitementfire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happyfor a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long timeand be bored all the whileso we wad all our life upinto one little rolland then we shoot the rollthat is what life is forit is better to be part of beautyour attitude toward lifeis come easy go easywe are like human beingsused to be before they becametoo civilized to enjoy themselvesand before i could argue himout of his philosophyhe went and immolated himselfon a patent cigar lighteri do not agree with himmyself i would rather havehalf the happiness and twicethe longevitybut at the same time i wishthere was something i wantedas badly as he wanted to fry himself
— Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success
The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word "saucepan" in it several times...
— Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle
The house was burning, the yellow-red sky was like the sunset...Nothing would be left, the golden ferns and the silver ferns, the orchids, the ginger lilies and the roses...When they had finished, there would be nothing left but blackened walls and the mounting stone. That was always left. That could not be stolen or burned.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
...as if prayers ever put out a fire.
— Ann Aguirre, Horde
Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.
— David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
— Black Elk
i want to love you with simple,like a bare singular matchstick.onestroketo ignitewith no words spokenby the heated flames of the timber of crimsoned scarlet fire.as it crackleswith closeseparationentangled with the intimacy of firefly asheschoosing to enchantingly dance around in abundantjoy.hazily whistling into the glorified heavensmaking the ebony soot dissolve into the cool crisp air.yearning to be the explosion whoburnsthrough your bonesas you visualize red ecstasy of aprovoked kindle.
— Zuky rose Leigh
Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.
— Georg Ernst Stahl
You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.
— James Blunt
The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
A fire burns with crackles at first, then loses its intensity; the same goes for love. But remember, that even the dying out fire can keep a room alight.
— Tista Ray
Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.
— A.P., Sabine
He closed his eyes for a moment and pulled at the fragments of the elements to light the torches hanging at the pillars on either side of him. The fire did little to warm the night, but Kaustab found its presence reassuring, the flickering blue flames danced and sparred with the shadows on the walls, a battle that the fire couldn’t win.
— Atul Randev, The Degenerate Tales of Decadent Minds
He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.
— William H. Gass, Omensetter's Luck
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
— Pierre Corneille
Carrying that lumber the forty meters from the forest had left his knuckles blistered, his underarms sopping, but now a few hours of flames had lifted what had taken him months to design, weeks to carry, days to build, all but the nails and rivets, all but the hinges and bolts, all into the sky.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him.
— Heather     James, Fire
With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.
— Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground
In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of little screwups recedes now for a few hours to be taken over by the inside world of blowups, this time by a colossal blowup but shaped by little screwups that fitted together tighter and tighter until all became one and the same thing--the fateful blowup.
— Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire
H--‐how did we get in the water?”“You were burning. I needed to do something to cool you. As soon as I carried you in, though, you started flailing around. Scared me,” he added on a whisper.That explained the dream. But it didn’t change what she knew was coming. She pressed her face against his neck and drew in the sweet scent of his skin. Loved the rasp of his stubbly cheek against her flesh.“Why do I get the feeling you’re holding something back?” he asked softly.Because he was smart. And because even in the short amount of time they’d been together, he’d learned more about her than anyone else in her entire life. “I believe in signs. I never did before but…I dreamed about you.”“You did?”She nodded. “I think I have for a while, I just…I didn’t know it was you. But now…”She swallowed hard. “I should have waited for you. It’s the biggest regret I have. I’m sorry I didn’t wait.
— Elisabeth Naughton, Bound
An inn, of course, was a place you came to at night (not at three o'clock in the afternoon), preferably a rainy night—wind, too, if it could be managed; and it should be situated on a moor (“bleak,” Kate knew, was the adjective here). And there should be scullions; mine host should be gravy-stained and broad in the beam with a tousled apron pulled across his stomach; and there should be a tall, dark stranger—the one who speaks to nobody—warming thin hands before the fire. And the fire should be a fire—crackling and blazing, laid with an impossible size log and roaring its great heart out up the chimney. And there should be some sort of cauldron, Kate felt, somewhere about—and, perhaps, a couple of mastiffs thrown in for good measure.
— Mary Norton, The Borrowers Afield
If ever again we happened to lose our balance, just when sleepwalking through the same dream on the brink of hell’s valley, if ever the magical mare (whom I ride through the night air hollowed out into caverns and caves where wild animals live) in a crazy fit of anger over some word I might have said without the perfect sweetness that works on her like a charm, if ever the magic Mare looks over her shoulder and whinnies: “So! You don’t love me!” and bucks me off, sends me flying to the hyenas, if ever the paper ladder that I climb so easily to go pick stars for Promethea—at the very instant that I reach out my hand and it smells like fresh new moon, so good, it makes you believe in god’s genius—if ever at that very instant my ladder catches fire—because it is so fragile, all it would take is someone’s brushing against it tactlessly and all that would be left is ashes—if ever I had the dreadful luck again to find myself falling screaming down into the cruel guts of separation, and emptying all my being of hope, down to the last milligram of hope, until I am able to melt into the pure blackness of the abyss and be no more than night and a death rattle,I would really rather not be tumbling around without my pencil and paper.
— Hélène Cixous, The Book of Promethea
Well, most people would have said `thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with `you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.
— Heather     James, Fire
He could never care about you. He sees you in the same way they see all of us: ruthless, cruel and power hungry." He laughed callously. "I guess we're about to prove them right.
— Heather     James, Fire
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, Fire
While they argued, the pain blazed on. My blood boiled in my veins. Why was I doing this? Was he worth all of this pain? Why should I care if he lived or died?"I love him." The words came out as a whisper, but they seemed to diminish the heat. I felt stronger and more sure of myself.
— Heather     James, Fire
I felt as though a large knot of flames had been lit in my stomach, making me feel nauseous and excited all at once
— Heather     James, Fire
I sat down on the grass and looked up at Brae. He was still shirtless and - although it pained me a little to even think it - it suited him. He was in really good shape and he looked less uptight without it, more relaxed. If it wasn't for his weird silver hair he could have looked perfectly ordinary. Better than ordinary in fact.
— Heather     James, Fire
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied it, and, above all, the splash of the shower-bath I had liberally bestowed, roused Mr Rochester at last though it was dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water. 'Is there a flood?' he cried
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.
— Heather     James, Fire
If there are difficulties on your way, be thankful for them because they will test and refine you as fire does to gold and if you will overcome, you will come out a winner, wizard and overcomer.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
I closed my eyes and let a wave of heat pass over me, tingling right down into my fingertips. As my eyes flickered open I let my hands shoot out in front of me, sending a spiral of flames into a nearby tree. The entire structure caught alight and glowed grotesquely."Remind me never to make you angry!" A now all-too familiar voice said behind me.
— Heather     James, Fire
Poor girl," I said, letting my eyes lock with hers for a moment before turning to face Cin again, weaving my hand possessively around his waist. "This is probably the first time she's ever seen anyone having fun before. I suppose we shouldn't blame her for being jealous.
— Heather     James, Fire
Set fire to the broken pieces
—  start anew.
If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them.
— C.S. Lewis
Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I'm often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.
— Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe
The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
Seclusion wasn't good for anyone
—  it made you forget how to protect yourself.
And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them,” Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.
— Andrew Ashling, The Invisible Hands - Part 2: Castling
The thing about fires most people don’t realise is the noise. It’s deafening so even if you shout, you can’t be heard three feet away. You can never quite get used to the fury of it, it’s like a mighty roar of anger that just keeps going. I suppose flame is beautiful, the way it leaps into the air like it’s free to do what it wants. Other elements are also free and I guess the sea can be pretty awesome, wind too, and lightning, but fire has a mind and a determination. You don’t see it as a blind raging thing, which I suppose it is, but something that attacks and thinks and changes tactics. It has a malevolence that uses surprise, dirty tricks, cunning. You get to think of it as someone, not something, and it’s someone you have to beat, but right from the start you don’t like your chances because it’s so big and unpredictable and can do so much harm.
— Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires
The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
— Heather     James, Fire
He blew himself up.”“Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?”“Not all over the place,” I said. “He was pretty well contained, all things considered.
— Janet Evanovich, Notorious Nineteen
It was exactly the sort of thing I needed to be reading that afternoon: a story where, no matter how bad things got, you knew everything was going to turn out fine in the end.
— Heather     James, Fire
That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.
— Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't know if it was the cold sincerity in my voice or the shock of being straddled by a wild, mud covered woman, but he didn't try to argue. "Give me your ring. Now.
— Heather     James, Fire
I forced myself to breathe deeply; perhaps they would have vanished. Perhaps I'd been imagining them because Brae was gone and I was scared without him, and now that he was back I'd feel safe enough again that they would go away. Perhaps it was just paint or something and would have been washed out by the sea spray earlier. I breathed again, feeling much calmer and then, slowly, opened my eyes.
— Heather     James, Fire
They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good," I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.
— Heather     James, Fire
Vincent laughed. "No, you still need to look like a Helian.""So I should burn everything to a crisp?""Well, that would definitely get your mother's attention, but I think that she's looking for something more sophisticated and less... scary.
— Heather     James, Fire
I'm not trying to avoid you,' I replied lamely, but what else could I say? Sorry Brae but when I first came down to meet you I had no idea how hard it was going to be to avoid telling you that I was turning into a grotesque monster and I am worried that there is a good chance I could wake up one morning with a sudden lust for your blood. Somehow I didn't think that would go down particularly well.
— Heather     James, Fire
We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.
— Heather     James, Fire
Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite." He lifted my chin with his hand and stroked his thumb gently across my lips. "All a male can hope for is to be consumed by it until there is nothing left of him.
— Dannika Dark, Impulse
Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
Hey, Alec," he said.The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he grunted something that kind of sounded like a "Yeah?""Why are we spending so much time on this side of where we left them?"Alec pulled himself out of the bush and looked back at him. "Seemed logical. I'd think they either followed us out of here to find us, or they were taken by the same yahoos who attacked us. Or... maybe they went to investigate the fire."Mark thought that was all barking up the wrong tree. "Or they ran away from the fire. Not every person on earth is as wacky-brained as you, good sir. Most people see a huge roaring inferno coming at them? They decide to cut and run. Just saying.
— James Dashner, The Kill Order
I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry.""Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.
— Chris d'Lacey, The Fire Within
What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions.
— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Hell Screen
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.
— William Golding, The Spire
[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor cousins, wind and water, are one-dimensional rubes by comparison. Wind is all push, push, push. Water is suffocating, but passively so. And even when water gets it together to be a torrent or a tsunami, it is but wet wind. Fire is at once elemental and otherworldly. Fire dances on the grave of all it destroys. Fire is serious voodoo.
— Michael Perry, Population: 485 : Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.
— Jim Pascoe, Hellboy Animated Volume 1: The Black Wedding
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY...SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY.....
— Muffin, North Philly's Finest Part 1
For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora
— Candace Knoebel
... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.
— Jayne Bauling, In Pursuit of Love
Your horse is named Small.Yes.Mine is named Big.-Fire and Brigan
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
— Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.
— James Patterson, The Fire
People want incongruous, impossible things.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.
— Rachel Caine, Ill Wind
Not everything set on fire will rise.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.
— Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.
— John Steinbeck
...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.
— Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun
We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.
— Mother Teresa
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
— Mark Twain
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
— John Locke
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
— Oscar Wilde
Belief means nothing without actions
— Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.
— Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
— Edwin Hubbell Chapin
We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.
— Anna Deavere Smith
People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences
—  in fact it was just the opposite.
Every action triggers a reaction.
— C.G. Watson, Quad
Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.
— Anton Chekhov, Selected Stories
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their act
— Jared Diamond
Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
— Julien Smith, The Flinch
Actions always have consequences!
— Joel Coen, A Serious Man
You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.
— Andy Andrews, The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury
— John Mills
Can an absence of action be construed as a negative action?
— Tamar Cohen, The Mistress's Revenge
Raise the bar and set yourself some new challenges. You can accomplish more than you think.
— Rebecca Gordon
Worthy admonitions cannot fail to inspire us, but what matters is changing ourselves. Reverent advice cannot fail to encourage us, but what matters is acting on it. Encouraged without acting, inspired without changing – there’s nothing to be done for such people.
— Confucius, The Analects
Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.
— Confucius, The Analects
I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.
— Marty Rubin
Whatever you do is your deed.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The head follows the feet. We act first and find reasons later.
— Marty Rubin
Unkind acts are like giving a piece of one’s self away for cheap.
— Ron Baratono
Show me something real
— Unknown
In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.
— Blaise Pascal, The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal
Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
Actions speak louder than meetings.
— Lee Clow
We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by our own private interpretation of the matter, we can see only the one possible motive behind the action, so that our solution may be quite plausible, quite coherent, and quite wrong. - Dorothy L. Sayers, Introduction, Pg. 4
— The Detection Club, The Floating Admiral
Learn the difference between a person that would have never given up on you and a person you pushed away.
— Shannon L. Alder
As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.
— Jennifer Frick-Ruppert, Spirit Quest
You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect a new result.
— Sunday Adelaja
We need to learn to seek God’s hand in everything and understand Him through His actions in your life
— Sunday Adelaja
In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory
— Sunday Adelaja
The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
In every bad situation we have to see Satan’s motives behind a person’s actions
— Sunday Adelaja
Go gave us His authority, He gave us His wisdom, He is waiting for our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
God gave us His authority, He gave us His wisdom, He is waiting for our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
We can only bring changes by taking a position, and by our actions
— Sunday Adelaja
It's impossible to be neutral when even doing nothing is a decision.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
We don't posses time. But we can own whatever we do with it.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Oftentimes it's the smallest, seemingly inconsequential acts that make the biggest differences in our lives.
— Richard Paul Evans, A Winter Dream
No one is free from something
—  something will surely be the reason for our actions!
Life comes in stages. We all have different ages. We do what we do because of our ages. Knowingly or unknowingly, we act because of where we have reached in life.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...
— James Sallis, Eye of the Cricket
There is no alternative to action, and that requires faith. The issue is how we are to mold for ourselves a belief system that is worthy of life.
— Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street
You can't just say NO," he said. "You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.
— Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
For basic survival, as for evolution, we have to accept the past as the creator of the present, influence the future, and act in the present.
— Daniel Egger, Future Value Generation: Do you need to create new Business Logics?
Winners have no interest or association in the opinions, actions or affairs of losers.
— Jeffrey Fry
Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything.
— Aleksandra Layland, Of Wisdom and Valor: The Art of War. The Path of Peace.
I shouldn't have spoken like that.''People do, sometimes. People who've had less to contend with than you. We're not always in full control of our actions.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
Choosing a mate is not a matter of can they do the job, rather will they. A partner of "potential" doesn't make for a happy marriage. Their actions have to be in line with your needs.
— Shannon L. Alder
No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary.
— Utpal Vaishnav
I cannot see that keeping the status quo intact would help in any way to solve the problems of inequality or suffering in this world. I would go for taking action towards change instead of accepting the inevitable.
— Elina Juusola, Love on the Line: How to Recover from Romance Scams Gracefully and Without Victimisation
Honourable is right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Behavior speaks… Before you even open your mouth, your actions have told me who you are and what you’re about.
— Steve Maraboli
Infinite potential exists for what actions can be taken.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
After every unladylike action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Consider the necessary, analyze the consequences, clean up the mess.
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
Tonight I crash an airship. On purpose.
— Gail Carriger, Manners & Mutiny
What really annoys me very often is when People start comparing two individuals. This clearly indicates that they have not lived their life at all. They are insulting themselves by resorting to these practices. They do not have even an iota of understanding as to how unique and gifted they are. Once you start living intensely, only then will you come to recognize your self, then you will be surprised how different you are, in your responses, in your actions - In Your Individuality, only then will you appreciate the uniqueness of others, not before. So, start living joyously, Celebrate Life!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Have you inspired someone today by your actions?
— Tony Curl
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
— Albert Camus
Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
External actions are evidence of internal beliefs. Our deeds are what show our creeds.
— Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
It is not always the motives behind an action that make it noble. Sometimes it is as simple as the action itself.
— Jocelyn  Murray, The Roman General: A Novel
You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
Pondering over your actions is a practical way of helping yourself in the battle against sin.
— Sunday Adelaja
Actions, not knowledge, bring result.
— Sunday Adelaja
We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.
— Kathryn Lasky, To Be a King
Sometimes stepping away from what you desire the most, is the best action to take: because it gives the process the momentum to take its own course.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.
— Davi Oliveira
Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.
— Auliq Ice
Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.
— Debasish Mridha
It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.
— Orrin Woodward
Happiness comes from actions.
— Debasish Mridha
Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions.
— Tuskas C
The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions
The moment you in a relationship, know that every action you take, carries your partner's dignity along with yours.
— Unarine Ramaru
I think lots of things, Denny, and I dismiss nothing. When I know, then I'll act.
— Jack Caldwell, Pemberley Ranch
Speak with your words and your message can be distorted... Speak with your actions and you'll leave no doubt.
— Steve Maraboli
Oftentimes in life, we can only determine our actions; not the outcome.
— David P. Ingerson
They don’t see what they’re doing. The only thing they see are their intentions.
— Amy Neftzger, The Orchard of Hope
Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Your actions and approach with what you have, will showcase to others what you would be able to do with more.
— Loren Weisman
I applaud those who speak, but I admire those who act.
— Steve Maraboli
it is not only what we have that enhance our dignity but what we do with what we have also magnifies our reputation to the highest level
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be....Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference. I’m not only speaking of the small actions that, cumulatively, over time, or in great numbers, alter the course of events in ways too chaotic or subtle to trace ... if everyone were to consider all the possible consequences of all one’s possible choices, no one would move a millimetre, or even dare to breathe for fear of the ultimate results.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice
Love yourself... enough to take the actions required for your happiness…enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past... enough to set a high standard for relationships... enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner... enough to forgive yourself... enough to move on.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
No, I will finish what I started, here, at Glimpa’s Arch. The act belongs to me, the consequence, pleasing or not, belongs to the gods.
— J.Z. Colby, Back to the Stars
... love is something you do; something not just to be said, but also to be shown. Let your love flow through your actions.
— Steve Maraboli
Loyalty is standing on someone’s side even if their actions are against your will.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.
— Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell
It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
— Francis Bacon
My life is a constant struggle between what they want me to be, what I want me to be, and who I’m being instead.
— Kyle Schmalenberg
When your actions are aligned with your dreams and goals, you become the point of origin for their reality.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?
— Evinda Lepins
I used to hold grudges until I realized that most people are narcissistic and their actions are driven by an unhealthy self-interest and not maliciousness towards me.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
When love comes first, actions will follow.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, 21 Steps to Better Relationships: Find More Balance with Others
Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.
— Camron Wright, The Rent Collector
One of the graces of this world is that there is always some opportunity to show through our actions-be they ever so small or humble-who we are and what we truly believe.
— Katherine Marsh
I can only control my actions, not their reactions," Senna replied. "But I have to live with both.
— Amber Argyle, Witch Born
We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had. - Army saying
— Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Henchard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or or in our friends...
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience....Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.And found you ...Who wouldn't be afraid of this?
— Louise Penny, The Brutal Telling
My mother is quiet. The way he acts, she thinks it must mean he doesn't love her as much as she loves him
— Carole Glickfeld, Swimming Toward the Ocean: A Novel
And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!" to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight & Fast.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Don't do anything that you wouldn't feel comfortable reading about in the newspaper the next day.
— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
— Confucius
I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.
— Joseph Stalin
Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.
— Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
The wisest men follow their own direction.
— Euripides
She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale."DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted.Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts.""That's not any better!
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
— Henry David Thoreau
I don't agree that when you love, you are blind or fool. You just get wiser and see clearer what is best and of worth.
— Hark Herald Sarmiento
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant
— William Saroyan, My Heart's in the Highlands
Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value!
— Victoria Addino
And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Smartass Disciple: Master, we should not spend our time to low life like them.Master of Stupidity: If I don’t, then how should I lead men like you to be wiser?
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity