Candle Quotes - Page 18

• Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

  Francois Rabelais

  Exercise, Light, Sun

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• The day of judgment is either approaching or
  it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I
  choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be
  brought.

  Alistair Cooke

  Wish, May, Causes

  Alistair Cooke (1951). “One man's America”, New York, Knopf

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• Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

  Susan Patron

  Cake, Wish, Adults

  Susan Patron, Matt Phelan (2009). “Lucky Breaks”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.

  Denis Diderot

  Blow, Order, Way

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

  Denis Diderot

  Blow, Night, Light

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.

  Wayne Grudem

  Ocean, Differences, Stronger

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.148, Harper Collins

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, Dark, Light

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• You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

  Mort Sahl

  Blow, Darkness, Want

  Mort Sahl (1976). “Heartland”, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

  William Golding

  Flower, Islands, Air

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• I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

  Sandra Lee

  Flower, Going Out, Tables

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• What this country needs is more people to inspire others with confidence, and fewer people to discourage any initiative in the right direction more to get into the thick of things, fewer to sit on the sidelines, merely finding fault more to point out what's right with the world, and fewer to keep harping on what's wrong with it and more who are interested in lighting candles, and fewer who blow them out.

  James Keller

  Country, Blow, People

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• Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.

  Daniel Johns

  Fall, Long, House

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• Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

  Gladys Taber

  Home, Night, Light

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• My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

  Sara Shepard

  Wish, My Sister, Breaths

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• Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Believe, Impact, Talking

  "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the Prophet of Boom and Doom" by Bryan Appleyard, www.thetimes.co.uk. June 01 2008,.

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• Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

  Henry Fielding

  Merit, Modesty

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1784). “Plays”, p.467

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• I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Friendship, Burned, Foe

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.

  Edward Lear

  Life, Two, Jugs

  'The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bó' (1871)

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• All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Light, Creative

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• To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Long, Burning

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Jesus, Thinking, Soul And Body

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• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Home, School

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Wall, Flower, Reflection

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Leadership, Sports, Persistence

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• The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

  Herb Caen

  Cake, Would Be, Towers

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