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Quotes About Combustible

In the boreal forest, there are many highly combustible materials to be found – the north woods are a living 'tinderbox', one of the easiest places on earth to start a fire.
~ Ray Mears
Why do we always fight?" she whispered. "You know why." Yeah, she did. "It's science." "Combustible chemistry," he agreed. "Dangerous.
~ Jill Shalvis
Affairs have their own brand of passion. Secrecy, torment, guilt, transgression, danger, risk, and jealousy are highly combustible, a Molotov cocktail, an erotic explosion far too threatening in a home with children.
~ Esther Perel
The self-control was something achieved, not inherited, and often masked combustible emotions that could explode in fury.
~ Ron Chernow
Financial partnerships are combustible affairs that frequently blow up as a result of personality clashes and disputes over money.
~ Ron Chernow
He had always known he would go out this way: on fire. He had always known that rage was flammable, dangerous to store under pressure, where he had kept it his whole life.
~ Joe Hill
You can't blame a match for a house made of straw
~ Scott Westerfeld
dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
~ John Geddes
When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work toward and work out toward democratic reform.
~ Chuck Hagel
cuanto más profunda está la veta de carbón, más inflamable es éste. Sin embargo, cuanto más pforundo, cuanto más duro es el carbón, más necesario se torna el uso de explosivos.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
~ Bill Bryson
There are seasons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
~ bovee christian nestell ix
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
~ Bill Bryson
Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.
~ Ilona Andrews
I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~ Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~ Carl Sagan
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
~ Proverb
Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.
~ James Patterson
Excellent. They were flammable.
~ James Patterson
Booze and gasoline make a deadly mixture.
~ Denver Post, c.1934
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
He's flint, you're tinder.
~ Holly Black