Flames Quotes

933 quotes by 723 authors

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire. — Kathryn Lasky
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever. — James Lileks
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
She had been so wicked that in all her life she had done only one good deed-given an onion to a beggar. So she went… — E. M. Forster
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
The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off. — Woody Allen
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
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than… — Samuel Johnson
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. — Robert Southey
A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people… — Garrison Keillor
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out. — O. Henry
Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne. — Maurice Maeterlinck
Love is above the laws, above the opinion of men; it is the truth, the flame, the pure element, the primary idea of the moral… — Madame de Stael

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