Extinguish Quotes

67 Extinguish quotes by 61 unique authors

You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children… — Patrick Pearse
If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not… — Tupac Shakur
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible. — Kelly Gallagher
The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it. — Ronald Reagan
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is… — Roni Horn
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent… — George F. Kennan
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference… — James Madison
And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow… — Felix Mendelssohn
Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand… — Aaron Hill
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. — Daniel H. Pink
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? — Arun Manilal Gandhi
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper… — Joseph Conrad
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must… — Thomas Jefferson
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says… — J. Michael Straczynski
We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to… — Stephen Batchelor
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my… — Anne Rice
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. — Tom Perrotta
Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to… — William Wilberforce
He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world,… — Ayn Rand
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart,… — Tabitha Suzuma
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self… — Steven Pressfield
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. — A. E. Housman

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