“But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.” TryingWholeMotivationFightingFireFilledCardsGamblingHallsDeckThug Book:Hull Zero Three Source: Hull Zero Three
“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.” WholeMemoriesFireColorSummerCarrieNovemberOpal Author:Gladys Taber
“The great wilds of our country, once held to be boundless and inexhaustible, are being rapidly invaded and overrun in every direction, and everything destructible in them is being destroyed. How far destruction may go it is not easy to guess. Every landscape, low and high, seems doomed to be trampled and harried. Even the sky is not safe from scath-blurred and blackened whole summers together with the smoke of fires that devour the woods.” MayCountryWholeSeemsTogetherEasyFireSkySafeSummerLowsDestructionEnvironmentalWoodsDestroyedOur CountrySmokeLandscapeDoomedBoundless Book:The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails Source: The Writings of John Muir: Steep trails
“I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.” YearsWholeFunFireNormalYeahSevenThings To DoBurnedSeven YearsBackyardsNormal ThingsJust For Fun Author:Emraan Hashmi
“My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.” IfsWholeGoalFireMotivatedSelf Motivated Author:Rick Warren
“Have a special interest, a positive prejudice about some clump of trees or one particular knoll, an excitement about them can spread through the whole composition, and so fire the rest of the things that you are only mildly interested in.” WholeInterestFireTreeSpecialParticularPrejudiceSpreadExcitementCompositionSpecial Interests Author:John French Sloan
“The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life.” WayWholeFireProgressYouthUnhappyIdolatry Author:Nat Friedman
“I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.” WorldWantWholeFireMaterialsBoxesNeighborWhole WorldCoalAdviseHeirsExplosivesCardboard Boxes Author:Pierre Schaeffer
“Take rainwater kept for several years, and mix a sextarius of this water with a pound of honey The whole is exposed to the sun for 40 days, and then left on a shelf near the fire. If you have no rain water, then boil spring water.” IfsYearsWholeLeftWaterSunFireSpringRainPoundsHoneyExposedShelvesRain WaterSpring WaterRainwater Author:Columella