The Tinderbox Quotes

#1. A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember.

Cormac McCarthy

#2. To have as one's ever-present friend, and to be conscious that one has as his ever-present friend, the Holy Spirit and to surrender one's life in all it's departments entirely to His control - this is true Christian living.

R.A. Torrey

#3. We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper.

Sam Harris

#4. ...watch an animal, and be reminded of what total integrity looks like.

Douglas Green

#5. Well Okay" Carter said "so the the average homosexual has five hundred sex partners a year, but I've been here almost a week and you don't have sex with anybody. Is there something wrong with you?

Marshall Thornton

#6. For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.

Marcel Proust

#7. The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.

Azar Nafisi

#8. A young man needs to know where he stands in the world, not just as a matter of basic human dignity but as determinants in the ways and means of survival, and what you might hope to gain by application of honest effort -

Ben Fountain

#9. It comes out so quietly that I have to ask her to repeat it: It's just that I thought maybe you were married to me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#10. I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

Peter Capaldi

#11. The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

William Henry Bragg

#12. Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#13. All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. It's like you're my own personal brand of heroin

Stephenie Meyer

#15. The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Robert Kiyosaki