Extinguished Quotes

138 quotes by 126 authors

A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished,… — Victor Hugo
Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished. — Libba Bray
The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be… — Edith Stein
Afraid that our inner light will be extinguished or our inner darkness exposed, we hide our true identities from each other. In the process, we… — Parker J. Palmer
He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one that the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can… — E. O. Wilson
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an… — Edward Forbes
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its… — Ivan Turgenev
A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer. — Archibald MacLeish
We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the… — Nick Cave
A star is extinguished, another will begin to shine - thus it is written in the Book of Nature — Guido von List
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading,… — Hannah More
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of… — Phylicia Rashad
I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I… — Jean Dujardin
I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session. — Gib Lewis

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