Top 17 Conflagrations Quotes
#1. Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item.
Bertrand Russell
#2. All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.
W. H. Auden
#3. I turned and beheld seven rows of plasma screens, each bearing seven vivid scenes, each flickering, each pulsing with a light revealing distant terrors, conflagrations, sufferings - and all thereby brought so close, and all thereby kept far away.
Scott Cairns
#4. We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
Andre Breton
#5. Still, perhaps that's all lives are, all the world is, a collision of vast conflagrations, each sparked from nothing.
Mark Lawrence
#6. It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#7. Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.
Stephen Leigh
#8. Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.
Leo Burnett
#9. The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#10. Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism.
Irvine Welsh
#11. Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.
Robert Crumb
#12. The obstacles are man-made, so we can overcome with divine-strength.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#13. The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it
Soren Kierkegaard
#14. They burnt down the whole palace and they laughed menacingly. The shadows of the dreams and memories they burnt alive walked all over the ruins, trying to hold on to the charred pieces of their body.
Akshay Vasu
#16. There are so many magazines and so many editors out there that you have to be different.
Carine Roitfeld
#17. There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.
Anthony Liccione