Quotes about Fire, page 3

The seriousness of a wound in a fire-fight is inversely proportional to the distance to any form of cover.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used on abandoned positions.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

When in a fire fight, kill as many as you can, the one you miss may not miss tomorrow.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

A free fire zone has nothing to do with economics.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

In peacetime people say: War is Hell. In combat, under fire from artillery, airplanes, or whatever, a soldier thinks, War is really really really LOUD as Hell!

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

You never have fire support in heavy firefight but you always have it on a silent recon mission.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when the Fire Control Officer is watching.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

Fire drills always occur on your day from hell.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

If at all possible, avoid any edible item that fire fighters prepare.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors the Soviets and, before them, the British.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about fire

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan, the battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

Quote by Mohammed Omar about fire

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Quote by Theodore Parker about fire

When you're younger, you've got more fire in your belly, an urge to make a name for yourself and maybe you think silence is not the way you want to be, you're a bit scared of it.

Quote by Michael Parkinson about fire

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

Quote by Estelle Parsons about fire

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

Quote by Dolly Parton about fire

Love, when in an equal, commandeth love, and this is so just, that fire doth not more naturally create a flame.

Quote by John Pearson about fire

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about fire

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about fire

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Quote by Robert Frost about fire