Flames Quotes - Page 26

• A tree there is that from its topmost bough
  Is half all glittering flame and half all green
  Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
  And half is half and yet is all the scene;
  And half and half consume what they renew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Tree, Dew, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Rejuvenation, Ashes

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• Sole and self-commanded works,
  Fears not undermining days,
  Grows by decays,
  And, by the famous might that lurks
  In reaction and recoil,
  Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Ice, Decay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, Graphic Arts Books

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• Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Facts, Spirit, Madness

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• Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Fire, Air, Class

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 6, c. 15 BC.

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• What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  War, Forever, Moments

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Looking Death In The Face”

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• Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Death, Funeral, Hatred

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• I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

  Jose Marti

  Art, Grief, Rain

  Jose Marti (2002). “Selected Writings”, p.273, Penguin

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• Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Smoke

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Bible, Wisdom, Blood

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• It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Men, Cosmos

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• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Hero, Character

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Beauty, Light

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• Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Anger, Thinking

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Transformation and Healing”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Sean O Faolain

  Purple, Race, People

  1947 The Irish.

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• If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

  Francois Mauriac

  Soul, Next, Cold

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• For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Wall, Past

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• But if we hide ourselves away, afraid to grow and learn, we might wake up in the flames of the ignorance that burns and we'll never be much more than only casualties of war in a struggle we can't win if we have no faith to begin. We've got to tip the lid and let some sunlight in.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  War, Struggle, Ignorance

  "Song: 'The People of The Boxes' ('The Prophet's Hands')". 2003.

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• Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Heart, College

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Modern Library

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• As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

  Chaka Khan

  Fire, Realizing, Ability

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• ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

  Frederick Buechner

  Rain, Winter, White

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• The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

  Herbert Hoover

  Men, Long, Mind

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “Challenge Liberty”

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• I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

  Thomas Paine

  Shining, Liberty, May

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• Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flying, Trying, Flags

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• Most things are born in the mothering darkness and most things die. Darkness is the womb of creation, my boy. But the sun with his seven horns of flame is the father of life.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Father, Boys, Darkness

  Zora Neale Hurston (1995). “Zora Neale Hurston: Novels and Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories”

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