Flames Quotes - Page 24

• F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

  Steven Pressfield

  Creativity, Self, Giving

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• I know the game, it's old and lame:
  You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
  Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
  But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
  But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
  If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Nice, Rap, Games

  Song: They Want Money

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• A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Light, Symphony, Air Power

  Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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• Defenceless under the night
  Our world in stupor lies;
  Yet, dotted everywhere,
  Ironic points of light
  Flash out wherever the Just
  Exchange their messages:
  May I, composed like them
  Of Eros and of dust,
  Beleaguered by the same
  Negation and despair,
  Show an affirming flame.

  W. H. Auden

  Lying, Night, Dust

  "September 1, 1939" l. 92 (1939) See George H.W. Bush 3

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• To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end . . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Giving, Quality

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• What was once a tiny seed of belief for me has grown into the tree of life, so if your faith is a little tested in this or any season, I invite you to lean on mine. I know this work is God’s very truth, and I know that only at our peril would we allow doubt or devils to sway us from its path. Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Believe, Journey, Tree

  "“Lord, I Believe”". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2013.

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• A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on his surface...but is a shadow which we can never succeed in penetrating...a shadow behind which we can alternately imagine, with equal justification, that there burns the flame of hatred and of love.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Hatred, Shadow

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• Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

  Jean Jaures

  Mean, Doe, Ashes

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• Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fire, Climate

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• But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

  William C. Bryant

  Tree, Listening, Maids

  William Cullen Bryant, “Autumn Woods”

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• I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.

  Pope Pius XII

  Suicide, Blessed, Persistence

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• Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Sensual, Melting

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

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• I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

  Kurt Cobain

  Bipolar, Musician, Want

  "Cobain Book Shows Singer's Life 'Heavier' Than Most Imagined" by Archive -Teri-Vanhorn, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2001.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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