Taking risks Quote by Abigail Reynolds

“If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Like a moth to the flame, I am drawn to writing, I do not question it, for no answer would diminish my urge, even…

— Christi Anna

“My position is quite simple. If the house is on fire one does not ask first who is to be blamed for the conflagration;…

— Virginia Woolf

“I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.”

— Winston Churchill

“We were now in the midst of dangerous abstractions which might once more threaten further embarrassments of the kind I hoped to avoid.”

— Anthony Powell

“In this world, the mistake is in where one says he has objections. There should be no objection to anything.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“...sometimes the only way to call attention to bad construction was to set fire to the building.”

— Larry Niven

“In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves. They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I liked to pretend I was noble, to tell myself I wouldn’t draw someone into the fire, but threatened with the safety of the…

— Lindsey Fairleigh

“All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims– and as far as possible one must refuse…

— Albert Camus

“It was your brother who doomed you. I have approached many humans with my story. Always, they are the cause of their own demise.…

— Chelsea Abdullah

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine