#fire

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #big #canary #care #cholera

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#did #fires #go #hear #i

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ↗

— George W. Bush

#camel #decisive #empty #fire #going

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ↗

— Lord Byron

#angels #desire #earth #fire #given

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#became #better #better man #biggest #biggest problem

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#counter-intelligence #did #fire #had #i

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ↗

— Cher

#fires #go #husbands #left #like

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted. ↗

— David Cameron

#completely #condemn #confronted #criminality #even