Flames Quotes

933 quotes by 723 authors

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older. — Doug Larson
For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, itâ€™s when weâ€™re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus… — Chang-Rae Lee
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio… — Charles de Gaulle
We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still… — William James
The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the heat. Soft gossamer… — E. L. James
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement. — Malcolm Lowry
I'll tell you what I really think about politicians. The other night I watched some politicians on television talking about Vietnam. I wanted very much… — Harold Pinter
Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying… — Valentina Tereshkova
Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames. — Glenn Beck
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is… — Philip Pullman
And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings. — Richard Sibbes
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick… — Harry Houdini
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims… — Antonin Artaud
Love is a flame to set the will on fire — John Masefield
Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is… — Thomas Dolby
Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. — William Butler Yeats

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