Flame Quotes

778 quotes by 620 authors

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an… — William Anders
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. — David James Duncan
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
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want… — Jack Kerouac
Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no… — Guido von List
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of… — Thomas Browne
The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet. — Roy Yamaguchi
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning. — Kazuo Ishiguro
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. — Tacitus
A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire. — Kathryn Lasky
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had… — George William Russell
In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is… — Antoine Lavoisier
Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins,… — Henry Beston
No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted… — Anais Nin
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which… — Victor Hugo
One lamp â€” thy motherâ€™s love â€” amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity… — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old… — Herbert Lockyer
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. — Antonio Porchia
Even winter â€” the hardest season, the most implacable â€” dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything… — Clive Barker

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