Ashes Quotes - Page 24

• We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don't see many fat gods

  Rick Riordan

  Fats, Bites

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• How can I appreciate light from an aging
  sun shining through new configurations neither pine
  nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
  fragrances from the spires, the spicules
  of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?

  Pattiann Rogers

  Light, Appreciate, Shining

  Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

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• I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
  I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

  Sapardi Djoko Damono

  Rain, Love You, Clouds

  Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”

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• Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

  James Sallis

  Fall, Civilization, Two

  James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books

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• Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

  Marcus Aurelius

  Too Late, Glory, Late

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• An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

  Simon Barnes

  Winning, Eccentric, Violence

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• I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

  Duncan Fletcher

  Winning, Thinking, May

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• We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

  Jean Jaures

  Past, Fire

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• One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me."

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Powerful, Heart, Knowing

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, War, Moving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

  Andrew Marvell

  Song, Lying, Thinking

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Fire, Voice

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Night, Effort, Sunrise

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• Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

  Gregory Colbert

  Elephants, Eagles, Whales

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.

  Gregory Colbert

  Men, Animal, People

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Men, Snow

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• Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Toxic, Destruction

  "Taylor Swift Wears the Pants". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 12, 2012.

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• What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

  Clara Barton

  War, Army, Cities

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• Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

  Joan of Arc

  Body, Today, Clean

  "Jeanne d'Arc, maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France". Book by T. Douglas Murray, 1902.

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• The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Wings, Phoenix

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.

  Peter Sunde

  Jobs, Hate, Media

  "Pirate Bay defendant: we can't and won't pay" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Fire, Choke

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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