the restless world of unenlightened men is like a burning…

“Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.”

— James Geary

“Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill…

— Shannon Celebi

Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house.

— Anonymous

“And now of a sudden my illusion vanished. What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let my anger…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens,…

— Sarah Kay

“I wasn't good at pretending, that was the thing. After what had happened in that burning house, given what went on there, I could…

— Gail Honeyman

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.…

— Ray Bradbury

“It's as if they saw a house burning and determined that the bigger the fire, the more firemen are present, and then concluded that…

— Uffe Ravnskov

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a…

— Johanna Moran

“There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there.…

— Ray Bradbury

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

— Richard Kadrey

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

— Anonymous

“1 You said ‘The world is going back to Paganism’. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House Spill…

— C.S. Lewis