Quotes about flames
flames purpose kindles
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. Alfred North Whitehead
flames atheism green
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. Alfred Lord Tennyson
flames california judging
The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges. Alcee Hastings
flames land light
May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more. Dwight D. Eisenhower
flames soul evolution
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul Andrei Tarkovsky
flames crafts metamorphosis
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. Annie Proulx
flames fire frustrated
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? Amy Grant
flames world tiny
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Anne Rice
flames woods
I read like the flame reads the wood. Alfred Doblin
flames deeds action
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. Andre Gide
flames doe want
You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame. Alton Brown
flames space people
Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames. Ann Aguirre
flames shining liberty
...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire. Thomas Paine
flames shining liberty
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.
flames fire rose
Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. T. S. Eliot
flames becoming celebration
When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration. Rajneesh
flames liberty generations
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it. Thomas Jefferson
flames july too-much
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.
flames fire states
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps it's improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide. Robert Higgs
flames fear-and-faith
Faith is the flame that eliminates fear. Suzy Kassem
flames flying trying
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80 percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get the rest in the future. Ronald Reagan
flames body stories
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow Rumi
flames mouths no-fear
I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.
flames track mind
Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame. Thomas Gray
flames essence light
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required. Victor Hugo
flames wings light
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.
flames long personality
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
flames grows
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again. Taylor Swift
flames feet fire
Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear. Tad Williams
flames matter eloquence
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns. Tacitus
flames lust dominion
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
flames trying want
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.
flames fire people
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth. Stephen Covey