#fire

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cannot #engines #fire #house #little

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#fire #obscurity #souls #stalwart #those

And basically, the sense of the 'Pledge to America' is this: Republicans understand when we were in charge, we got fired in '06. We spent too much money. We defied the trust that the people had put in us. And we know that there is a better way. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#basically #better #better way #charge #defied

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? ↗

— George Carlin

#fight #fighters #fire #freedom #mention

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe. ↗

— Thomas Carper

#delaware #effort #every #every day #families

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point? ↗

— Scott Stapp

#anything #business #creed #entire #fired

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#away #enemy #enough #fire #forward

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#carry #faith #fear #fire #fireman

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #art #fireworks #great #like

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#fire #hammer #happens #i #me