When you eat a piece of white bread, think of it as putting a tissue on a fire. But if you eat something that has wholegrains, whether it's a little bit of oatmeal, a little bit of protein, it's like putting a log on the fire.
Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
When your thirteen colonies won their freedom from Great Britain you took a brand from our council fire and kindled your own fire. Now the same fire is trying to consume the very people who taught you the worth of such a fire. The hand that guided and protected your ancestors is now open to you for justice.
The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to. It's just common sense that I learned the hard way - I keep touching the fire. I'll touch it even though you told me it's hot, even though it's burned me before.
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.
It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.
I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.
Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
Add not fire to fire.
