Arianna Huffington Quotes

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

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

The time when people really want government is in an emergency.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

To play at Chesse when the house is on fire.

This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches

Streets flooded. Please advise.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Haste is needful in a desperate case.

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

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.

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.

Stop the traffic...let 'em through.