Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn't been warmed by the fire of love is lifeless, like a useless ball of corn flour.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

Wayne is truly blessed. He doesn't just have ability, he has a fire inside him.

I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!

Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

I'm very determined and stubborn. There's a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

There's a fire starting in my heart

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.