Flames Quotes - Page 27

• I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.

  Phil Woods

  Warrior, Pride, People

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Children, Adventure, Color

  Charles Lindbergh, “Untitled”

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• Hearts are like tapers, which at beauteous eyes Kindle a flame of love that never dies; And beauty is a flame, where hearts, like moths, Offer themselves a burning sacrifice.

  Omar Khayyam

  Love, Eye, Heart

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• The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing. The afternoon sun smoulders in the drowsy sky. I have everything to make me glad I am alive. I am filled with dreams and mysteries. I am all sun and air and sparkle. I am vitalized, organic.

  Jack London

  Dream, Autumn, Air

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.152, Xist Publishing

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• Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came, And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.

  Francis Thompson

  Summer, Wine, Fire

  James M. Byrne, Francis Thompson (2001). “God: thoughts in an age of uncertainty”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

  Lord Byron

  Dark, Fire, Heaven

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour”

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• The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

  William Sharp

  White, Joy, Forever

  William Sharp (1907). “From the hills of dream: threnodies, songs and later poems, by Fiona Macleod”

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• How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

  John Gay

  Simple, Play, Maids

  1728 The Beggar's Opera, act 1, sc.4, air 4.

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• For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

  John Locke

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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• Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

  William Congreve

  Ambition, Fire, Self

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

  John Newton

  Revenge, War, Fire

  John Newton (1877). “Olney hymns: in three books”, p.423

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• I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

  John Newton

  Christian, Prayer, Exercise

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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• All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God's is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Love, God, Sea

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• If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

  Amber Heard

  Cute, Beautiful, Sexy

  "The Rum Diary - Amber Heard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think you can fan the flames, but I think in the same way that a mathematician is a mathematician - He's not taught to be a mathematician. He either has a feeling for equations and an understanding and delight in it, not only in the purity of it, but in its beauty as well.

  John Hurt

  Thinking, Feelings, Understanding

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

  Charles Stross

  War, Believe, Writing

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• Every forward step achieved by man has been due to the adventurous attitude. This attitude inspires dissatisfaction with the world as it is; it arouses the desire to change and improve things. The attitude of adventure is the flame that lights the fuse to explode new ideas.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Attitude, Adventure, Men

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• There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Light, Miracle

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

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• Burning desire is the eternal flame.

  Douglas Horton

  Desire, Burning, Eternal

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• The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Darkness, Pseudoscience

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Encouragement, Achievement, Sparks

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• Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

  Jay Leno

  Lobbyists, Congress, Weasels

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• Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family.

  Rebecca West

  Home, Sacrifice, Self

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• When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages". To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here". Believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Fall, Islands, Hearing

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