Flames Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• Try leaving a trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit.

  Dale Carnegie

  Gratitude, Rose, Leaving

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I longed to be a flame of fire continually glowing in the divine service and building up of Christ's kingdom to my last and dying breath.

  David Brainerd

  Fire, Glowing, Building Up

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• Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Heart

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.

  Joshua

  Fire, Water, Judgement

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Delicate Things

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