Candle Quotes - Page 9

• If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Light, Darkness, Ifs

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• We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Rich, Electricity

  Thomas A. Edison's statement to a reporter during the first public demonstration of his incandescent (December 31, 1879), as quoted in Chris J. Magoc "Chronology of Americans and the Environment" (p. 46), 2011.

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• A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

  Dalai Lama

  Thousand, Lit, Originals

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• First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

  A.M. Jenkins

  Knowing, Lesson Learned, Lessons

  A. M. Jenkins (2009). “Repossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

  Normandi Ellis

  Light, Flames, Shining

  Normandi Ellis (2009). “Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, someone's drunk in the kitchen.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

  "Jim Gaffigan: Beyond the Pale", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.

  John Spence

  Attitude, Nice, Thinking

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• Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

  Israel Meir Kagan

  Light, Darkness, Sticks

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• It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.

  Kristina McMorris

  Love You, Thinking, Light

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• A waste land lit by holy candles.

  Sean O'Casey

  Land, History, Waste

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1942-54”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle burns on the window ledge a few feet away. I take a deep breath, which is to say, as deep a breath as I can take. "Are you okay?" Sarah asks. I wrap my arms around her. "I miss you," I say. "You miss me? But I'm right here." "That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they' re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

  Pittacus Lore

  Missing Someone, Dark, Two

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• Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

  Tennessee Williams

  Youth, Wanton

  Tennessee Williams, David Ernest Roessel (2007). “The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

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• So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

  Herman Melville

  Hope, Heart, Cutting

  Herman Melville, General Press (2016). “Moby Dick”, p.242, GENERAL PRESS

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• The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Learning, Fire, Wind

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• I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.

  Ron James

  Guy, Needs, Buzz

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• The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

  Amy Bloom

  Distance, Past, Comfort

  Amy Bloom (2007). “Away: A Novel”, p.186, Random House

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• I will light candles this Christmas, Candles of joy, despite all sadness, Candles of hope where despair keeps watch. Candles of courage where fear is ever present, Candles of peace for tempest-tossed days, Candles of grace to ease heavy burdens. Candles of love to inspire all my living, Candles that will burn all the year long.

  Howard Thurman

  Sadness, Light, Years

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• Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

  Rumi

  Stars, Blue, People

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

  Aftab Alam

  Hope, Dark, Light

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• ... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.

  David Wong

  Wind, Forever, Life Is

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books

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• Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

  Frank Delaney

  Giving, Sticks, Backsides

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.41, Random House

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• Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.

  Lola Ridge

  Hurt, Night, Light

  Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

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• It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

  George Eliot

  Kindness, Giving, Grease

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• In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

  Michael Grant

  Kings, Men, Land

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• When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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