Quotes and Sayings About Flames
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We fail to see the purifying and refining effect wrought by the flames of adversity. These flames are not meant to consume but only to purify us. Disguised as adversity, blessings are showered upon us.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
-- Aberjhani -
Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?
-- Abraham Coles -
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
-- Adam Smith -
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
-- Adolf Hitler -
There is, then, no danger in the circumstances that anti-semitism will disappear, for it is the Jews themselves who add fuel to its flames and see that it is kept well stoked. Before the opposition to it can disappear, the malady itself must disappear. And from that point of view, you can rely on the Jews: as long as they survive, anti-semitism will never fade. (13th February 1945)
-- Adolf Hitler -
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
-- Adyashanti -
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go back, he'll Beat his wings 'til he burns them black... No, The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. . . The Moth don't care if The Flame is real, 'Cause Flame and Moth got a sweetheart deal. And nothing fuels a good flirtation, Like Need and Anger and Desperation... No, The Moth don't care if The Flame is real. . .
-- Aimee Mann -
But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.
-- Alan Rusbridger -
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
-- Alan Watts -
I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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 -
It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism
-- Alex Salmond -
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!
-- Alicia Witt -
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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 -
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
-- Amin Maalouf -
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.
-- Amrita Pritam -
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 -
Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again
-- Amy Winehouse -
The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
-- Anais Nin -
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 -
Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.
-- Andrew Davidson -
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
-- Andrew Motion
