Arsonists Quotes

• I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

  Saul Bellow

  Running, Phoenix

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• The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

  Ilana Mercer

  Sex, Thieves, Disease

  "One Man's Malady, Another Man's Fetish". www.wnd.com. August 04, 2006.

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• The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Arson, Difficult, Evidence

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• Resentment is when you allow what’s eating you to eat you up. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free.

  Max Lucado

  Revenge, Fire, Choices

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• What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

  Bill Janklow

  Couple, Taken, Sick World

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• The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Vacant, Counterfeit Money

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• The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.

  Paul Sloane

  Firefighter, Leader, Innovative

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• A good organizer is a social arsonist who goes around setting people on fire.

  Fred Ross

  Fire, People, Social

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• Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.

  Max Lucado

  Revenge, Fire, Rage

  Max Lucado (2008). “The Applause of Heaven”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  People, Giving, Gasoline

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• People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Morning, Sex, White

  Source: content.time.com

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• I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire.

  James Thurber

  Mistake, Firefly, Two

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• You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Home, America, President

  "Open Letter to the Republican Traitors (From a Former Republican)" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Complaining

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• It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Grandfather, Criminals, Noses

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.103, Penguin

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• Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Jobs

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• God is a refiner, not an arsonist.

  Neva Coyle

  Encouragement

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• Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it.

  Bart Yates

  Falling In Love, Love You, Eye

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.210, Kensington Books

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• It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wife, Choices, Jake

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.282, NYLA

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• We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.

  Bill Moyers

  Fire, Years, House

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• Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!

  Charles Barron

  Thinking, Fire, Hypocrisy

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