Combustible Quotes
23 quotes by 19 authors
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed…
— Robert Mayer
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h***…
— J.K. Simmons
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Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine.
— Albert Wynn
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A great rock band searches for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
— William Butler Yeats
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[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken place in a…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with…
— Carl Sagan
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at…
— Bill Bryson
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Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I swear he's just so freaking smoldering, you have to see him." She shakes her head, annoyed that I can't join in on the fun.…
— Alyson Noel
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Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re…
— Ray Bradbury
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Why do we always fight?†she whispered. “You know why.†Yeah, she did. “It’s science.†“Combustible chemistry,†he agreed. “Dangerous.
— Jill Shalvis
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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I support gun control. But speaking honestly about the combustible mix of race and guns may be more important to stopping the slaughter in minority…
— Juan Williams
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PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Do you know that you've ruined me for any other? I love your laugh - the way your lovely blue eyes light up with joy.…
— Kemis Khan
Who Wrote These Combustible Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 23 Combustible Quotes as follows: