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Quotes About Arsonist

The press loves a heretic, especially one who can set fire to things and then walk away to look for the next pile of kindling. It is more problematic when the arsonist is in the heart of government, but is ill informed and, worse, spellbound by a science that is barely understood by experts, let alone tourists.
~ Adam Rutherford
The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Sex offenders were the least-respected convicts in any prison society; if a violator of Article 130 could have pretended that he was an ax murderer instead, or an arsonist, or a man who had filled a ditch with fourteen poisoned wives, he'd have preferred that to entering the prison as a sex offender.
~ Ed McBain
Like a fire set by an arsonist, passionate hatred and conspiratorial worldviews reach well beyond their intended target. They are not rationally contained. But even if the antisemites were to confine their venom to Jews, the existence of Jew-hatred within a society is an indication that something about the entire society is amiss. No healthy society harbors extensive antisemitism—or any other form of hatred.
~ Deborah E. Lipstadt
If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist.
~ Linda Howard
I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!
~ Janet Varney
Arson is almost as good as Prozac.
~ Joe Hill
It was a Sunday, an arsonist sunrise.
~ Markus Zusak
In Australia, the dawn is an arsonist who pours petrol along the horizon, throws a match on it and watches it burn.
~ Julia Baird
After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.
~ S.E. Cupp
But then again, I was pretty certain I'd make more mistakes, so I didn't dwell on the one I'd just made too long. This is another thing I'll put in my arsonist's guide: if you make a mistake, don't dwell on it too long, because you'll make more of them.
~ Brock Clarke
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
This struggle to defend the trees and forests is above all a struggle against imperialism. Imperialism is the arsonist setting fire to our forests and our savannas
~ Thomas Sankara
The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough
~ Harvey Stanbrough
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
The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.
~ Jimmy Breslin
The conscientious arsonist doesn't just set the building on fire; first he fills the fire extinguishers with petrol.
~ Tom Holt
Caesar snorts. 'Maybe it was. Maybe the fat guy was really a suicide arsonist. He crawled up into the chimney and lit himself on fire.' 'Maybe he was just desperate to lose weight,' Paulie adds, and the other guys crack up. 'Enough,' I say. 'Aw, Fitz, you gotta admit it's pretty funny – ' 'Not to that man's parents. Not to his family.
~ Jodi Picoult
Driving lessons,' he raked down at her, his dark head lowering. 'Putting you behind the wheel of a Porsche would be like putting an arsonist in a barn!
~ Unknown