Flicker Quotes
79 quotes by 69 authors
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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance; love of man…
— Janet Morris
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Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your…
— Rajneesh
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it…
— Mordecai Richler
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Risk is relative. And relative to the imminent planetary 'game over' neon sign that's starting to flicker above our children's heads, just as they are…
— Dave Hampton
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Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal…
— David Almond
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up…
— Wade Boggs
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What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made…
— Amy Carmichael
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Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
— Rumi
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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We are just a little tiny flicker of a much larger flame that is Life itself, Consciousness itself, Being itself, Love itself, God’s very self.
— Richard Rohr
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These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks.…
— Rebecca Wells
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And sometimes, when the stars are kind, we read with an intake of breath, with a shudder, as if someone or something had 'walked over…
— Alberto Manguel
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic.…
— Robin Hobb
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea -…
— Karel Capek
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I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village…
— Pranab Mukherjee
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If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable…
— Marshall Savage
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I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to…
— Paul Levinson
Who Wrote These Flicker Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 79 Flicker Quotes, led by these top contributors: