Fire

"Tuli on hyvä trenki, mutta huono isäntä. (Kankaanpää, Satakunta) (KRA)"

"The Spirits of thy Lines infuse a Fire Like the Worlds Soul, which makes me thus aspire"

"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."

"Those who don't build must burn."

"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!"

"Controlling fires is an enormously difficult challenge. Our research has shown that by applying large electric fields we can suppress flames very rapidly. We're very excited about the results of this relatively unexplored area of research."

"Combustion is first and foremost a chemical reaction – arguably one of the most important – but it's been somewhat neglected by most of the chemical community. We're trying to get a more complete picture of this very complex interaction."

"When you start using oscillating fields there are new mechanisms that come into play and these mechanisms lead to much stronger effects on flames -- effects that are so strong as to have been shown to suppress fires," Cademartiri said. The team reported that when they placed an insulated wire at the base of a thin, 19-inch flame and applied about 600 watts of power -- similar to a medium -- sized microwave oven, the flame went out. "This is quite different from blowing air on the flame," Cademartiri said. "When you blow on the flame, you generate flow outside the flame and you push air into this flame. In our case, we generate this flow within the flame."

"You want it darker We kill the flame"

""Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they." Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre."

"In a good fire, every single thing is moving. Nothing is still. This is how Nature goes. Watch the sea, look into it: nothing is still down there. Slow down, to tree time, and watch the growth of a leaf, or the growth of a child. In terms of the pattern of its relentless movement, fire is only living, sped up."

"Derek Dunn-Rankin of the who works with NASA to study the effects of flames in electric fields in microgravity, doubts this technique will be used to put out large fires. His team has concluded from their own experiments that "it will not be possible to ever usefully extinguish flames of significant size," he said, because flames naturally have few charged particles to be moved by the electric field."

"Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires."

"The pain was maddening. You should pray to God when you're dying, if you can pray when you're in agony. In my dream I didn't pray to God, I thought of Roger and how dearly I loved him. The pain of those wicked flames was not half so bad as the pain I felt when I knew he was dead. I felt suddenly glad to be dying. I didn't know when you were burnt to death you'd bleed. I thought the blood would all dry up in the terrible heat. But I was bleeding heavily. The blood was dripping and hissing in the flames. I wished I had enough blood to put the flames out. The worst part was my eyes. I hate the thought of gong blind. It's bad enough when I'm awake but in dreams you can't shake the thoughts away. They remain. In this dream I was going blind. I tried to close my eyelids but I couldn't. They must have been burnt off, and now those flames were going to pluck my eyes out with their evil fingers, I didn't want to go blind. The flames weren't so cruel after all. They began to feel cold. Icy cold. It occurred to me that I wasn't burning to death but freezing to death."

"κόσμον τόνδε, τὸν αὐτὸν ἁπάντων, οὔτε τις θεῶν οὐτε ἀνθρώπων ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ ἔσται πῦρ ἀείζωον, ἁπτόμενον μέτρα καὶ ἀποσβεννύμενον μέτρα"

"It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, Would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again."

"Like the fire that needs the air, I won't burn unless you're there."

"Whether fire was first procured for man through a daring theft practiced on the gods by some hero of antiquity, or whether, as the Sioux Indians allege, it originated in the sparks struck from the rocks by a panther as he bounded up the side of a hill, its value has been obvious to every human tribe, and there has existed no race within the time of which we have record or tradition to whom fire has been unknown. The part which it has played in man's history is beyond power of narration, and the immensity of this part is only made obvious as we become conscious of the psychological atavism which occurs as we sit by the fragrant wood-fire of gipsy or other roadside traveller. All the stuffiness of houses and the pettiness of modern gentility fade away, and we are borne back to times many centuries past, when our ancestors—who are ourselves—sat round just such a fire and watched the blue or purple smoke, "lark without song," float upward, carrying the fragrance of ash or holly to the nostrils of the gods."

"Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn."

"Combustion is the hidden principle behind every artifact we create. The making of a fishhook, manufacture of a china cup, or production of a television programme, all depend on the same process of combustion. …From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away."

"In many religions, the fire is sacred and is the witness of spiritual practice. It is considered divine. In ancient India, the rishis guarded their sacred fire most carefully and kept it clean, as it was believed to be the residence of divinity. Sitting by the dhuni purifies one's vibrations. This you can find out for yourself. Whenever you have any kind of trouble, go to the dhuni and let it give you solace and uplift your spirit."

"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself."

"Burning outside the fire is worse than burning inside [the fire]."

"Fire may be represented as the destroyer of all sophistry, and as the image and demonstration of truth; because it is light and drives out darkness which conceals all essences [or subtle things]."

"Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold."

"Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth."

"A thing happens once that has never happened before. Seeing it, a man looks upon reality. He cannot tell others what he has seen. Others wish to know, however, so they question him saying, 'What is it like, this thing you have seen?' So he tries to tell them. Perhaps he has seen the very first fire in the world. He tells them, 'It is red, like a poppy, but through it dance other colors. It has no form, like water, flowing everywhere. It is warm, like the sun of summer, only warmer. It exists for a time upon a piece of wood, and then the wood is gone, as though it were eaten, leaving behind that which is black and can be sifted like sand. When the wood is gone, it too is gone.' Therefore, the hearers must think reality is like a poppy, like water, like the sun, like that which eats and excretes. They think it is like to anything that they are told it is like by the man who has known it. But they have not looked upon fire. They cannot really know it. They can only know of it. But fire comes again into the world, many times. More men look upon fire. After a time, fire is as common as grass and clouds and the air they breathe. They see that, while it is like a poppy, it is not a poppy, while it is like water, it is not water, while it is like the sun, it is not the sun, and while it is like that which eats and passes wastes, it is not that which eats and passes wastes, but something different from each of these apart or all of these together. So they look upon this new thing and they make a new word to call it. They call it 'fire.' If they come upon one who still has not seen it and they speak to him of fire, he does not know what they mean. So they, in turn, fall back upon telling him what fire is like. 'As they do so, they know from their own experience that what they are telling him is not the truth, but only a part of it. They know that this man will never know reality from their words, though all the words in the world are theirs to use. He must look upon the fire, smell of it, warm his hands by it, stare into its heart, or remain forever ignorant. Therefore, 'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words."

"His clothing was white like snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool. His throne was flames of fire; its wheels were a burning fire."

"Nimrod becoming weary of arguing with Abraham, decided to cast him before his god--fire--and challenged Abraham's deliverance by the God of Abraham, but God saved him out of the fiery furnace."

"The sinners in Zion are in dread;"

"Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!"

"I came to set fire to the earth, and I wish it were already on fire!"

"And if anyone wants to harm them, fire issues forth from their mouths and devours their enemies; and if anyone should want to harm them, in this manner he must be killed."

"Heap coals of fire upon his head."

"We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and (a means of) safety for Abraham!""

"Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke."

"Words pregnant with celestial fire."

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

"Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire."

"A crooked log makes a straight fire."

"Well may he smell fire, whose gown burns."

"Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet."

"The burnt child dreads the fire."

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

"There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire."

"All the fatt's in the fire."

"Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire."

"They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre."

"Dare pondus idonea fumo."

"Out of the frying pan into the fire."