Torches Quotes - Page 8

• Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

  Russell Kirk

  Innovation, Progress, Principles

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• The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.

  Jacques-Louis David

  Philosophy, Artist, Should Have

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• The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is like the electric torch that shines over the water of New York Bay, struck by the wing of many a seabird that dashes against it in its reckless flight, but still shining on unmoved while the foolish and reckless assailant falls bleeding and wounded at its feet. It is an anvil which has worn out many a hammer of hostile criticism, while the anvil still remains unshaken amid the wreck of all that have assailed it.

  A. B. Simpson

  New York, Book, Fall

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• Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mirrors, Mind, Plates

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspiration, Love Is, Fire

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• Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed where we failed. If we retaliate, there will not be a dog, a deer, an ape, a bird or fish or lizard to carry the evolutionary torch. In the name of justice, if we must condemn and destroy ourselves, let us not condemn all life along with us! We are heavy enough with sins. If we must destroy, let us stop with destroying ourselves!

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Dog, Names, Justice

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• Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Light, Hell

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• Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

  Richard Hooker

  Light, Waste, Good Things

  "The Life of William Ewart Gladstone". Book by John Morley, 1901.

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• When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

  Edward Young

  Men, Light, Shame

  Edward Young (1866). “The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life”, p.271

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• Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

  George Chapman

  Dream, Men, Wind

  'Bussy D'Ambois' (1607-8)

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• The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not fun - particularly because I was drunk. Luckily at some point I started to see the light of the ski lift. To be in the forest in the middle of the night, it's terrible.

  Roman Polanski

  Fun, Night, Light

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• Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.

  Muhammad Ali

  Government, Atlanta, Nervous

  "Muhammad Ali: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Splendid, Candle

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• I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.

  Rhymefest

  Running, Rapper, Grandparent

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Light, Heaven, Growth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

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• Christianity ... has produced the iniquities of the Inquisition, the egotism and celibacy of the monasteries, the fury of religious wars, the ferocity of the Hussite, of the Catholic, of the Puritan, of the Spaniard, of the Irish Orangeman and of the Irish Papist; it has divided families, alienated friends, lighted the torch of civil war, and borne the virgin and the greybeard to the burning pile, broken delicate limbs upon the wheel and wrung the souls and bodies of innocent creatures on the rack; all this it has done, and done in the name of God.

  Ouida

  Religious, War, Soul And Body

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• A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

  Edmund Burke

  Jealousy, Light, Lovers

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Light, Flames

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• And in the evening, everywhere
  Along the roadside, up and down,
  I see the golden torches flare
  Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

  Frank Dempster Sherman

  Lamps, Golden, Towns

  Frank Dempster Sherman (1917). “The Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman”

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• Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Truth, Shining, Shock

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• The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

  Amrita Pritam

  Fire, Flames, Wife

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• I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

  Ato Boldon

  Feels, Has Beens

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• A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

  Voltaire

  Europe, America, History

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• The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Eye, Dark, Sea

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• You can rely on your team to do their jobs, but you have to carry the torch and do anything you need to, not just to shoot and finish, but to get the film seen. You have to know within yourself that you're going to have to take this. Don't sit back and think other people in your team are going to make it happen now because you've done your part. You have to carry that torch, and no one is going to care as much as you do, and nobody is going to live with it as long as you are because it's your film.

  Storm Saulter

  Jobs, Team, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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