1,723 Quotes About Fire


  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    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.

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  • Author Georg Ernst Stahl
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    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.

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  • Author Charlotte Brontë
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    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

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  • Author Giacomo Puccini
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    آن چیست که همچون آتش جرقه می زند و گرما می بخشد اما آتش نیست؟**جاکومو پوچینیاپرای توراندخت

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  • Author Atul Randev
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    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.

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  • Author A.P.
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    Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.

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