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  • Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?

    House   Burning   Want  
    The Fire Next Time (1963)
  • Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

    "As I See Religion". Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1932.
  • If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

    Art   Cat   House  
  • The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

    Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC
  • In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

    Powerful   Color   Smell  
  • A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.

    Fall   Men   Jumping  
  • I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

    Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.120, Library of Alexandria
  • When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

    Thinking   Fire   House  
  • To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

  • There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

    Book   House   Burning  
    Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.25, Hamilton Books
  • For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

    Running   People   House  
    "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.
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