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How could I stand by and watch my house on fire? -- Kamisese Mara
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. -- Jim Harrison
Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire. -- Horace
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. -- Tennessee Williams
When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water. -- Yahya Jammeh
The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning. -- Sandra Cisneros
I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors. -- Terry Pratchett
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down! -- Flavor Flav
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
Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) -- Jim Harrison
I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire. -- Tinie Tempah
I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. -- Luke Perry
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a lot - and actually shooting them, strangling them, dragging them through the fields and setting their house on fire. -- Douglas Adams
There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it. -- Michael Pitt
Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire! -- Paul Stanley
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. -- Edmund Burke
With our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. -- Charles Krauthammer
I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire. -- John Niven
I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about 'our government is in trouble'. They say, 'The government is in trouble.' -- Malcolm X
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I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals. -- Luke Evans
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. -- Knute Nelson
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself! -- Jean Nouvel
Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?' -- Elizabeth Blackburn
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. -- Robert Fulghum
If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not. -- Marco Rubio
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. -- Jackson Browne
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. -- Edmund Wilson
The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. -- John Jakes
I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation. -- Mark Helprin
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson
To play at Chesse when the house is on fire. -- George Herbert
He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope. -- Robert Frost
I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago. -- Nat Hentoff
When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not. -- Richard Kadrey
Let husband and wife never speak to one another in loud tones,unless the house is on fire. -- David O. McKay
When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire. -- Andy Stanley
I'm working on my house and playing with my fire pit and kind of just hanging around and making my home feel homey. -- Luke Grimes
I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire" -- R.E. Bradshaw
Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins. -- Ricky Gervais
The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire. -- Don DeLillo
I think that's part of the whole denial and suicidal mechanism [ of the human's race] right "Oh my God, the house is on fire." You sleep through the smoke. -- Eve Ensler

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