Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Richard Baxter

If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

Rebecca West

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Sara Teasdale

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

Walter Scott

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

Neal Shusterman

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

Neal Shusterman

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Jonathan Zittrain

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Kellan Lutz

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Shunryu Suzuki

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Carlos Castaneda

Theres no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Simone Weil

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

Thomas Carlyle

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Rumi

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

Stanislaw Lem

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged.