Combustions Quotes & Sayings

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated. — David Ricardo

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger. — Aime Cesaire

We have all forgot more than we remember. — Thomas Fuller

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors. — Kinky Friedman

Last chance," he said in guttural voice. "Get out, or get in my bed."
"Is there a third option? — Lisa Kleypas

What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him. — Mihail Sebastian

Our democracy is of no use to those who have not been educated to it. Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. — Sylvia Plath