Flames Quotes
933 quotes by 723 authors
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Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
— Irving Layton
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We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof…
— John Keegan
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the…
— Cathy Freeman
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A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
— Boris Pasternak
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I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.
— Matthew West
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Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm.
— Gretchen Rubin
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I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it,…
— Bob Uecker
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Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and…
— Henri Nouwen
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The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner…
— Charlie Munger
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Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to…
— Moby
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The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
— Laozi
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You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in…
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
— Matthew Simpson
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It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism
— Alex Salmond
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The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and…
— Harold Norse
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Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am…
— Rebecca Solnit
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