Flames Quotes - Page 21

• Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Passion, Understanding, Enlightened

  Thomas Hobbes (2013). “Leviathan”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

  Adolf Hitler

  May, Helping, Contests

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• If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete.

  Tanith Lee

  Thinking, Burning, Want

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• O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today-- The Harvest comes tomorrow.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Heaven, Age

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.22

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• Now I know how Joan of Arc felt,
  As the flames rose to her Roman nose
  And her Walkman started to melt...

  Steven Morrissey

  Rose, Noses, Arcs

  "Song: 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'". 1986.

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• What's the definition of a good flame? One you agree with.

  Karl Lehenbauer

  Definitions, Agree

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• In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Country, Hero

  William J. Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, articles.baltimoresun.com. August 30, 1996.

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• Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

  Thomas Overbury

  Fire, Yield, Giving

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• My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

  Alicia Witt

  Strong, Lying, Knows

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• When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

  Masao Abe

  Death, Smell, Snuff

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• Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color.

  Charles Demuth

  Flower, Light, Color

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• Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Fire, Desire, Sacred

  William Alexander, “Sonet 1”

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Twilight, Night

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.

  Lola Ridge

  Dream, Pain, Joy

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Thinking, Denial, World

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• For every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Essence, Heat, Prophet

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

  Praveen Kumar

  Running, Fuel, Willpower

  Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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• As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Two, Water, Mind

  "Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1987.

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• Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Giving Up, Self

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “Awaken Children Vol. 4”, p.237, M A Center

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• If you stare into a flame You'll get an eye full of energy If you write your nightscapades You'll get a dawn full of promises

  Happy Rhodes

  Eye, Writing, Promise

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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• Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, Hands, Doe

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.26

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• Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Thinking, Light

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.11, editionNEXT.com

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• I sold my soul to the devil. I'm going to hell. I'm headed to hell. I want the money, the women, the fortune, and the fame. That Means I'll end up burning in hell scorching in flames. Satan'll be in to see me later to see if I'm interested in being partners. Devil worshippin', Satan music.

  Eminem

  Mean, Soul, Devil

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• I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

  Katy Perry

  Names, Phoenix, Heaven

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