Flames Quotes - Page 17

• While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Adventure, Years, Joy

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.10, Knopf

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• The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.

  John Stott

  Fall, Love Is, Fire

  John R. W. Stott (1972). “What Christ thinks of the church: insights from Revelation 2-3”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

  Johann Joachim Becher

  Change, Kings, Class

  "Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

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• Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

  Izumi Shikibu

  Sad, Rivers, Tears

  no Komachi Ono, Izumi Shikibu (2015). “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of teh Ancient Court of Japan”, p.128, Vintage

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• I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

  Karl Rove

  Towers, Citizens, Sides

  Speech at a Fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State, www.nytimes.com. June 23, 2005.

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• Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Tired, Love Is, Force

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• I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Mind, Lightning

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• Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Fire, Light

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• It doesn't really matter whether we reflect the light through our authentic gifts or whether our authentic calling is to spread it. What matters is that tonight is that the world is dark, cold, and bleak. Your flame burns so brightly. Share your Love and warmth with others. Watch the Light return.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Dark, What Matters

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• Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Truth, Fire, Sincerity

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”

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• The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

  Katherine Catmull

  Grief, Sea, Knives

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• May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Light, Land, Darkness

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.65, Best Books on

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• When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Becoming, Celebration, Disappear

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• Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

  Katherine Philips

  Friendship, Strong, Passion

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• People who plead with you for favours
  May eventually prove to be great flatterers.
  Your friends are only those
  Who all the time cheerfully support
  Your heart's aspiration-flames.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Friends, Heart, People

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• The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

  Robert M. Morgenthau

  Safety, Effort, Dollars

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• We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, World, May

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• Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes

  Anne McCaffrey

  Stars, Soldier, Red

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Mother, Encouragement, Son

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• Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Heart, Night

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Fire, Creative

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• Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Men, Waiting, Forget

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• [Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Travel, Believe, Sides

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• There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Sparks, Individual, Results

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• I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stars, Moon, Wind

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