#fire

I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#japan #japanese #japanese-literature #japan

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#death

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire. ↗

— Red Barber

#fire #his #like #running #tail

They have some pretty tough gun laws in Japan, as they do in any other civilized country in the world, and they're not killing each other off with firearms. You have very violent films in Europe, yet it's not causing the mayhem we see in our streets routinely here. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#causing #civilized #country #each #europe

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#constant #constant fear #control #dark #dropped

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself. ↗

— Mark Twain

#itself #look #only #painted #words

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bin #blood #bullet #ceiling #could

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. ↗

— Joe Biden

#idealism #must #our #rekindle #society

But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#again #back #before #border #border security

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. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#am #carries #consumes #devours #fire