Flames Quotes

933 quotes by 723 authors

Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out... — George Bernard Shaw
This is the effect of panic, a natural effect, you could say that animal nature is like this, plant life would behave in exactly the… — Jose Saramago
There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen… — David Foster Wallace
We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,… — William Goldman
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? — Joyce Carol Oates
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the… — Salman Rushdie
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run… — Laurie Halse Anderson
A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame.… — Tanith Lee
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences… — Wassily Kandinsky
They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No.… — Ray Bradbury
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Khalil Gibran
You say that you people donâ€™t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thatâ€™s what true faith would mean, yâ€™see? Sacrificinâ€™ your own life, one… — Terry Pratchett
Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value… — Karen Marie Moning
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf
[Thinking about his first day if he were the Fuhrer] "On that day, all female officers will be required to wear... tiny miniskirts!" [Strikes pose]… — Hiromu Arakawa
Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was… — Edith Hamilton
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. — Ivan Illich

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