Torches Quotes - Page 5

• If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.

  Hugo Chavez

  Morning, Men, Light

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• We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three Batman films. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.

  Christian Bale

  Three, Actors, Looking Forward

  "Christian Bale won't be Batman in 'Justice League' movie" by Adam Markovitz, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2013.

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• President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously he's not doing that well in North America [on screen: '36% Approval'], his South American trip had a few bumps [on screen: 'Angry mobs of torch-carrying bumps'], Europe seems to think the president doesn't care what they think, but hey, who cares what they think? They could at least thank him for what he's done for their burning effigy industry.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Eight, Europe

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• A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

  Mo Rocca

  Imagination, Caves, Dinosaurs

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• It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

  Winston Churchill

  Nations, English Speaking

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• Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and turns. The child armed with the torch of knowledge, awareness and guidance must cross this bridge and set foot to the intense harshness of the bigger world.

  Samad Behrangi

  Dream, Children, Real

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• Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

  Michele Bachmann

  Liberty, Palin, Lit

  "Sarah Palin and Joe Miller unite for Alaska rally", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

  Dawna Markova

  Inspirational, Life, Fall

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way is attained and the truth is seen, ignorance vanishes and enlightenment abides forever.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

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• Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Passion, Men

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• The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Country, Dark

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• The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

  Joseph Stowell

  Christian, Running, Unique

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• My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the liberty of hand and brain... to all the wise, the good, the brave of every land, whose thoughts and deeds have given freedom to the sons of men. And then I vowed to grasp the torch that they had held, and hold it high, that light might conquer darkness still.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wise, Gratitude, Hero

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Wise, Mistake

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3259, Library of Alexandria

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• Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

  Charles Dickens

  Teacher, Spring, Ignorance

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, His Relatives, Friends and Enemies: Comprising All His Wills and His Ways, with an Historical Record of what He Did, and what He Didn't ...”, p.245

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• Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Lit

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• A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Blow, Use, Scalpels

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• As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Ghana, Light, Long

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• The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a wrath of which the rage of 1795 gives no true idea. The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged.

  Friedrich Engels

  War, Wrath, Ideas

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• We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making at work rather, we put the blow torch on the one moment when it doesn't work and something goes wrong.

  Rob Long

  Mistake, Blow, Decision

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• Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Eye, Past

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3526, Delphi Classics

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• I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Blow, Glasses, Taught

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• My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.

  Big Bill Morganfield

  Mistake, Men, Guitar

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• The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

  Haile Selassie

  Leader, Inspire, Different

  "Speeches Delivered on Various Occasions, May 1957-December 1959", (p. 138), 1960.

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• I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Life, Morning, Believe

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