#fire

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#away #breath #caught #country #democratic

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #big #canary #care #cholera

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#did #fires #go #hear #i

When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. ↗

— George W. Bush

#camel #decisive #empty #fire #going

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. ↗

— Lord Byron

#angels #desire #earth #fire #given

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#became #better #better man #biggest #biggest problem

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. ↗

— Oded Fehr

#counter-intelligence #did #fire #had #i

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended. ↗

— Cher

#fires #go #husbands #left #like