Conflagration Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.
— Henry Ford
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War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a…
— Kate Forsyth
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Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if…
— Charles Spurgeon
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If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.
— Carmen Agra Deedy
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If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society;…
— Russell Kirk
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Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
— Quintus Curtius Rufus
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then…
— Martin Luther
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts…
— Carl Jung
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The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the…
— Romain Rolland
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Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.
— Stuart Hill
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Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst…
— Leo Tolstoy
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You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The…
— Cassandra Clare
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You do the hundreds of things that a Christward heart does in the hope that God will put a match to those little sparks to…
— John Piper
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A hidden fire burns perpetually upon the hearth of the world.... In autumn this great conflagration becomes especially manifest. Then the flame that is slowly…
— Hugh Macmillan
Who Wrote These Conflagration Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Conflagration Quotes as follows: