Quotes About Firefighting

#1. Such is LIFE..Man comes crying and goes back firefighting..!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#2. Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.

Lois Greiman

#3. Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the pipeline. I think most of the poor have that problem.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#4. Firefighting is a world of Murphy's Law; it is when you can least afford a crisis that one crops up.

Jodi Picoult

#5. President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

Lael Brainard

#6. When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

Jodi Picoult

#7. When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

Joan Rivers

#8. Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

Dennis C. Blair

#10. There is a point when a structure fire is raging out of control that you simply have to give it the distance to burn itself out. So you move back to safety, to a hill out of the wind, and you watch the building eat itself alive.

Jodi Picoult

#11. One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

Carlos Fuentes

#12. When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you have to step back from it as a self-indulgence. You have to look at it neutrally.

Josh Groban

#13. Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

Amitabh Bachchan

#15. Not only was this the first time a girl had ever given me her card, it was also, by far, the coolest contact card I had ever seen. "This is, by far, the coolest contact card I have ever seen," I said. "Thank you!" I

Ernest Cline

#16. Every Hero Becomes a Bore at last." Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tim O. Casey

#17. All men die, Kendras. Better get used to it. And then fight until the end, with every breath, every heartbeat, every single, last thought.

Aleksandr Voinov