The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
Were building it up. To break it back down. Were building it up. To burn it down. We can't wait to burn… — Linkin Park Copy Share Image
To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want… — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
After an awkward pause, Bast extended his hand. Chronicler hesitated for a bare moment before reaching out quickly, as if he were… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
These transcending truths restructure our understanding of ourselves and of the universe and bring within our view resplendent reality. To be seen… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the steel-and-glass society that we live in, the value system would be that the lawyer, with the Mercedes and the fine… — Scott Raab Copy Share Image
The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return,… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
IF YOUR OPPONENT strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“Let your will burn in this fire so that it takes you nowhere else. Let your self be burned in this fire… — H.W.L. Poonja Copy Share Image
I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased… — R. C. Lehmann Copy Share Image
I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
“Above the engine two vivid blurs of blue light formed incessantly a radiant crackling bar between them, which, like a spluttering flame… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We also write to heighten our own awareness of life... We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection...… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“A black dog, tall and wide as a full grown man, took a couple of steps toward them. It bared sharp, yellow… — Pamela K. Kinney, "Let Demon Dogs Lie," Southern Haunts: Devils in the Darkness Copy Share Image
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of… — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
“Jordie and I tried to have sex in the kitchen and almost caught it on fir. I was cleaning smoke and burned… — Toni Aleo Copy Share Image
He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a… — Cyril of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My son will not allow any fires tonight," Gaea said from the depths of the warehouse. "He is the void that consumes… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image