Flames Quotes

933 quotes by 723 authors

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep… — Albert Schweitzer
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. — Adam Smith
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. — Taylor Swift
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. — Rabindranath Tagore
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in… — Nikola Tesla
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody… — Stevie Ray Vaughan
Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. — Harvey Weinstein
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb. — Debra Winger
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a… — William Butler Yeats
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is… — Boris Yeltsin
Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick… — Haruki Murakami
You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets… — Lloyd Jones
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having… — Lewis Carroll
You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame… — Dag Hammarskjold
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes… — Lorrie Moore
And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the… — Edgar Allan Poe
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at… — Bill Bryson
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry

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