Flames Quotes - Page 4

• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Death, Humorous, Profound

  "Wrestling Archangels". Book by Bede Clarke, 2001.

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• We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Thanksgiving, Thank You

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• The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fire, May, Sparks

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

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• I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

  Eamon de Valera

  War, Passion, Europe

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• Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

  Juliet Marillier

  Men, Burning, Helping

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• One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Hypocrisy, Looks

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.

  Anais Nin

  Passion, Curiosity, Littles

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Soulmate, Mirrors, What Is Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.157, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fashion, Fire, Ashes

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  Fidel Castro

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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• The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  July, Too Much, Civil Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.218

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• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Inspirational, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press

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  Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

  Alexander Smith

  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.174

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• I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Littles, Sparks

  John Steinbeck (2009). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.341, Penguin

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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  For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

  Judy Garland

  Love, Funny, Romantic

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, America, Government

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• And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

  Ezra Pound

  Beautiful, New York, Stars

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• Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Sight, Class, Cities

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

  Thomas Moore

  Wedding, Soulmate, Effort

  Thomas Moore (1994). “Soul Mates: Honouring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship”, HarperElement

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• The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done".

  George Carlin

  Funny, Time, Jobs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

  Charles Dickens

  Friendship, Wine, Wings

  'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)

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• Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

  Billy Graham

  Fire, Church, Together

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

  Rumi

  Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Stars, Children

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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