Burning Down Quotes

• Odiar a la gente es como quemar tu propia casa para deshacerte de una rata.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirador, Divertido, Triste

  "Como veo la religión". Libro de Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.

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• We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

  Heráclito

  War, Fire, House

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• Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

  Perrie Edwards

  Hate, House, Energy

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• But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

  Mary Oliver

  Heart, Knowing, Needles

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them.

  Wafa Sultan

  Yield, People, Church

  "For muslim who says violence destroys islam, violent threats". www.nytimes.com. March 13, 2016.

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• Cada vez que muere un anciano, es como si se quemara una biblioteca.

  Alex Haley

  Library, Persons, Dies

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• El dolor de su amo era su dolor. Y le dolía más que su amo estuviera enfermo que estar enfermo él mismo. Cuando la casa empezaba a incendiarse, ese tipo de negro luchaba más por apagar la casa del amo que el propio amo. Pero entonces había otro negro en el campo. El negro de la casa era una minoría. Las masas, los negros del campo eran las masas. Eran mayoría. Cuando el amo se enfermaba, rezaban para que muriera. Si su casa se incendiaba, rezaban para que llegara el viento y avivara la brisa.

  Malcolm X

  Hurt, Pain, Fighting

  Malcolm X (1989). “Malcolm X: The Last Speeches”, Pathfinder Press

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• Me gustaría ver arder la casa de Mitt Romney, una de sus millones de casas. Sería genial, la patrulla de bomberos mormones.

  Joy Behar

  Mean, Fire, House

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• When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

  Arianna Huffington

  Worry, House, Remodeling

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• Our house is burning down and we are blind to it. The earth and humankind are in danger and we are all responsible. It is time to open our eyes. Alarms are sounding across all continents. We cannot say we did not know! Climate warming is still reversible. Heavy would be the responsibility of those who refuse to fight it.

  Jacques Chirac

  Eye, Responsibility, Fighting

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• Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

  Margaret Weis

  Children, Night, Light

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.451, Wizards of the Coast

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn't always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

  David Esmeralda Womeldorff

  Heart, Earthquakes, House

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• Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Voice, House

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• Una cultura indígena con territorio suficiente y educación bilingüe e intercultural está en mejores condiciones de mantener y cultivar su mitología y su chamanismo. Por el contrario, la confiscación de sus tierras y la imposición de una educación extranjera, que convierte a sus jóvenes en amnésicos, amenaza la supervivencia no sólo de estos pueblos, sino de toda una forma de conocer. Es como si se quemaran, una tras otra, las universidades más antiguas del mundo y sus bibliotecas, sacrificando así el conocimiento de las futuras generaciones del mundo.

  Jeremy Narby

  Sacrifice, Land, Knowing

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.119, Penguin

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• What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  House, Tudors, Generations

  "Monstruos invisibles". Libro de Chuck Palahniuk, septiembre de 1999.

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• Si me dan a elegir entre la apatía o que alguien libere visones, queme un laboratorio de investigación y tortura o mate a un viviseccionista u otro asesino DIRECTO de animales, elegiré las acciones mencionadas antes que la apatía cualquier día de la semana.-

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Choices, Apathy

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• Lamento la desaparición del News of the World, creo que era un gran periódico de campaña. Quién puede olvidar la campaña de alto nivel del News of the World contra los delincuentes sexuales infantiles, que llevó a los lectores del News of the World a quemar la casa de un pediatra, tirar piedras a un pedalo y pisotear un ciempiés.

  Stewart Lee

  Sexo, Niños, Perdón

  "Mundo de restos de alfombras". Comedia, 2012.

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• Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

  Alice Munro

  Country, Phones, House

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.359, Vintage

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going.

  Jonathan Adler

  Perseverance, Lying, Should Have

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• Los aspectos comerciales del 4 th Of July no son perfectos tal como están. Vean lo que nos cuesta cada año con la pérdida de vidas, la paralización de miles de personas con sus fuegos artificiales y el incendio de propiedades. No sólo es sagrado para el patriotismo y la libertad universal, sino también para el cirujano, el enterrador, las oficinas de seguros... y lo están explotando al máximo.

  Mark Twain

  4th Of July, Loss, Years

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.263, Xist Publishing

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• Intento evitar que se queme mi propia casa. No puedo preocuparme por la casa de otro.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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• Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn’t love him. Not because he was a beast or white — I couldn’t love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn’t feel it.

  Eduardo C. Corral

  Corazón, Oscuridad, Hombres

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• The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

  Justin Davidson

  Fire, Priorities, Architecture

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