Tennessee Williams Quotes

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

Fire is our first form of technology.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided. More often it is a crisis invited.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

Avoidance has never been a great tactic in solving any problem. For most situations in life, not addressing what's going on only makes matters worse.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

As a politician, you can run from your problems or run toward your problems.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.