Tinderboxes Quotes

#1. How close beneath the surface, even in the happiest family, is the chronic grievance! I sometimes think that tinderboxes are inert and powder kegs mere talcum compared to the explosive possibilities in the most commoplace domestic situation.

Margaret Halsey

#2. The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

Tennessee Williams

#3. To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

Leonard Ravenhill

#4. The pain had driven him out of his mind. You could see it on his face. If that guy came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood. The

Stephen King

#5. When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.

Lao-Tzu

#6. Look, everybody in journalism has a reputation of sorts.

Bernard Goldberg

#7. If you have to die [ ... ] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.

Elizabeth Bear

#8. Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

Kathleen Raine

#9. If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.

Hesiod

#10. Whatsa mattah allee time talkee talk bear business? Me no savvee bear business. You no like this Gloddam show, you go somewhere else.

Charles G. Finney

#11. Marriage isn't for everyone, however if you find the right co-pilot it's a great way to travel through life

Kloby

#12. A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

Irwin Schiff

#13. Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

Nora Ephron