Quotes about flames
flames two silence
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. Neal Shusterman
flames wind personality
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be upright, and a flame can flicker in the wind, a flame can be extinguished so there's no sign of it, like it had never been. Joyce Carol Oates
flames littles busy
Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame. Rachel Caine
flames black littles
Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn
flames fire skins
I stopped in the full force of a patch of sunlight in the lobby window and let my skin soak up the energy. I hadn’t realized I needed it until it reached inside and stilled me in a way that only David’s touch had been able to achieve. “Why does that feel so good?” I asked. “And don’t tell me it’s because we’ve been shut in a room for days.” “Like calls to like,” he said. “You’re made of fire now.” “So I’m going to feel like this every time I pass an open flame? Great. Firegasm.
flames fool burned
No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned Pete Townshend
flames jewels color
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil. Pliny the Elder
flames sea purple
Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil.
flames challenges faces
While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power. Pope Benedict XVI
flames want kicks
I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames. Jim Morrison
flames people emptiness
We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions or people. We have to go deeper into that emptiness, then we will find beneath nothingness the flame of love to warm us. John O'Donohue
flames voice greek
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. Lewis H. Lapham
flames going-out looks
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. Lewis Carroll
flames fancy remember
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
flames citizens sides
I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble. Karl Rove
flames fire burning
But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you. Karen Maitland
flames broadway saws
'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed. Josh Young
flames play fire
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames. Joshua Homme
flames darkness humanity
He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more. Laurell K. Hamilton
flames envy soar
Envy, like flames, soars upwards. Livy
flames sparks individual
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results. Louis D. Brandeis
flames ashes tradition
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes. Gustav Mahler
flames facts spirit
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 flare
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. Richard Paul Evans
flames jeans sweaters
I’m a succubus.” He shook his head. “No, you aren’t.” “Yes, I am.” “You aren’t.” I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. “I am too.” “No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don’t wear jeans and sweaters. Richelle Mead
flames years fire
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 ? Richard Baxter
flames age grass
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. Rebecca West
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