Politics Was Fun

Genius is initiative on fire. - Holbrook Jackson

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska. - Tim Moon

Content is fire and social media is gasoline. - Jay Baer

Tell the men to fire faster and not give up the ship. - Captain James Lawrence

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. - Joe Biden

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos. - Aneurin Bevan

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. - Jeremy Taylor

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. - Abigail Van Buren

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people. - Kathy Austin

We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary. - Robert M. Drake

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street. - Kin Hubbard

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw

If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? - George Carlin

She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach. - Robert M. Drake

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech. - Franklin P Jones

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

The fire of the diamond of true identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it. - Kenneth G Mills

Kissing power is stronger than will power: Girls need to 'prove their love' like a moose needs a hat rack. - Abigail VanBuren

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly. - Stephen R. Covey

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old. - Bill Bryson

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. - Robert Brault

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you? - Erma Bombeck

Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos. - William I. Thompson

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote. - Condoleezza Rice

“Ah, Zora, you are so naive," the fire fairy said with a hearty chuckle. "You have no idea what happened to them, do you? You have no clue as to what happened to your parents.” - Markelle Grabo

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the "ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome." You must be willing to fire. - T. Boone Pickens