Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Andre

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Lee Kreindler

What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile.

Amy Hall

When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.

Alan King

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Erik Guay

When I fell, I didn't think I would be in this situation two weeks later. My leg has made a tremendous improvement over the last 15 days. At this point, I can do about 95 percent of the physical training activities. The challenge arises when I have to jump or sustain more impact to my leg, especially while skiing.

Sharon Salzberg

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.

Eckhart Tolle

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

Ezra Stiles

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.

Charles de Secondat

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Herbert Murerwa

We are aware of distortions in the market that have arisen from price controls. These controls have contributed to the shortages of basic commodities on the open market, with the same goods resurfacing on the parallel market.

Steve Sinnott

There are dangers that social difficulties can arise when you mix 11-year-olds with 15-year-olds. For example, if a 15-year-old was sent down to work with 11-year-olds that could lead to a serious loss of self-esteem and would be seen by peers as a sign of failure.

Eckhart Tolle

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Anne Sullivan

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Claude McDonald

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke

O. Winston

I don't smoke and don't drink. Never did.

Henry Sokolski

I think it's sort of smoke and mirrors.

Scott Peters

She said that if you wanted to smoke, she could go out there and smoke with her teachers.

Tom McGee

The way they are trying to play it, it's a smoke screen. It's a big charade and very twisted.

Ken Dobson

The victims were kind of spread out in the house. Smoke detectors could have made the difference.

Isabella Blow

I smoke so many cigarettes, there's no way I could have a glossy lipstick.

Ron Carey

But if it's just a smoke screen, we're out of here,

Nathan East

Steve Laury smokes playing octaves.