Flames Quotes - Page 8

• And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Eye, Heart

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

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• Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.

  Ivan Illich

  Dark, Knows, Candle

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• Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Dark, Way

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.

  Glenn Beck

  Night, Knees, Praying

  "Censoring Glenn Beck: Doesn’t the Left Believe in Free Speech Anymore?" by John W. Whitehead, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Past, Trials, Sparks

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• Superstition sets the whole world in flames, but philosophy douses them.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, World, Superstitions

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• Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Jewels, Color

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.896, Simon and Schuster

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.

  John C. Norcross

  Fuel, Emotion, Awareness

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• One has to be very alert to go beyond lust. And one has to be constantly aware of jealousy, of possessiveness, of domination, because those are the strategies of lust. If you drop jealousy, possessiveness, ego trips, then slowly slowly lust disappears and love arises. Love is a pure flame without any smoke. It is prayer, it is divine, and it makes you divine.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Prayer, Love Is

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• A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.

  Henry James

  Daughter, Fall, Autumn

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.370, Library of America

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wall, Hands, Sanctuary

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Alas, Islam turned against science in the twelfth century. The most influential figure was the philosopher Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali, who argued in The Incoherence of the Philosophers against the very idea of laws of nature, on the ground that any such laws would put God's hands in chains. According to al-Ghazzali, a piece of cotton placed in a flame does not darken and smoulder because of the heat, but because God wants it to darken and smoulder. After al-Ghazzali, there was no more science worth mentioning in Islamic countries.

  Steven Weinberg

  Country, Islamic, Hands

  "Islam and science – the 'hideous' way". www.the-tls.co.uk. January 18, 2007.

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• Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

  Nostradamus

  Mean, Light, Zodiac

  Nostradamus (2013). “The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Fire, Charity, Devotion

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.4278, Catholic Way Publishing

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• We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

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• Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Two, Half

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• Another priest said,"Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?""Yes."Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from Dorfl."But the gods plainly do exist," said a priest."It Is Not Evident."A bolt of lightning lanced down through the clouds and hit Dorfl's helmet. There was a sheet of flame and then a trickling noise. Dorfl's molten armour formed puddles around his white-hot feet."I Don't Call That Much Of An Argument," said Dorfl calmly, from somewhere in the clouds of smoke.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, White, Feet

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• Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.

  Phil Klay

  Lonely, Jobs, Communication

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.90, Penguin

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• I think humor is like a shield that lets you get as close to the sad sad flame as possible - far closer, oftentimes, than drama.

  Alissa Nutting

  Drama, Thinking, Shields

  Source: therumpus.net

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• George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Long, Personality, Larger Than Life

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think Donald Trump should be allowed within 1,000 miles of our shore because he would embolden the EDL on the one hand and fuel the flames of terrorism on the other hand.

  Jack Dromey

  Thinking, Hands, Fuel

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

  Brad Willis

  Yoga, Heart, Light

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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