A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It’s called bankruptcy. It doesn’t mean, necessarily, that the industry is eclipsed or that it’s gone. Often times, the phoenix rises out of the ashes.
Amid apocalyptic dystopia, ‘Fahrenheit 451”s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization’s ashes.
It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
It’s no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.
The Ashes have been hard, but you take the accolades when they come along.
My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I’d scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus – that way, I’d visit him every day.
The one term I don’t like to be called is a ‘vulture.’ Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that’s much closer to what it is that we really do.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
But helping to raise a football club from the ashes, and running it as director of football operations, is the hardest thing I’ve ever done by a million miles.
Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.
Who says we can’t win the World Cup and the Ashes in the same year? Oh yes we can. It all goes back to my motto in life: Be proud of how far you’ve come – and have faith in how far you can still go.
I haven’t really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.
In an Ashes series you have to adapt quickly to the conditions and your rivals. If you don’t, you get found out.
Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure – and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.
Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
It’s great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn’t sit right with me when you don’t win it.
Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
You know there is something a little bit special about an Ashes.
I can remember that 2005 Ashes as a kid and being really absorbed in that whole series at 14 years old. It was magical.
I remember my first meeting with Alastair Cook clearly. The entire Lancashire side, some of them pretty mild-mannered, really laid into him. He’d just scored a double-hundred for Essex against Australia in a warm-up match before the 2005 Ashes. For some reason, we all assumed he must be really arrogant.
I lose things all the time. I once left my mother’s ashes at a bus stop!
I think the great thing about ‘Ashes To Ashes’ is that it is very much its own show.
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under.
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
There is something special about the early stages of an Ashes Test. There is this unique buzz.
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