Flames Quotes

933 quotes by 723 authors

The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of… — Elizabeth Goudge
The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city… — Donna Tartt
The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for… — Emile M. Cioran
The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle us. — Neal A. Maxwell
Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder… — Emil Nolde
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ… — Charles Spurgeon
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames. — Joshua Homme
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration… — Stephen Leigh
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
Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground,… — Plutarch
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
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
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

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