Quotes and Sayings About Flames
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Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.
-- James A. Owen -
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
-- James F. Cooper -
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.
-- James Joyce -
Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.
-- James Lileks -
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
-- James Oppenheim -
What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
-- Jana Oliver -
When people fall in love, they burst into flames.
-- Jandy Nelson -
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
-- Jane D. Hull -
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
-- Jane Porter -
[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.
-- Janet Frame -
Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
-- Jay Inslee -
The first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC. Do you know who lit the flame? Betty White.
-- Jay Leno -
I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.
-- Jayne Cortez -
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.
-- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn -
When the Saracens came to attack him, they threw Greek fire onto the barrier he had made; and the fire caught easily, And you should know that the Turks did not wait for the fire to burn itself out, but rushed upon the Templars among the scorching flames.
-- Jean de Joinville -
Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.
-- Jean Jaures -
By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!
-- Jean Racine -
Words.” His tone sharpened. “I shared my house, my bed, and my blood with you, as well as offered you a place in my life forever. What are words compared to that?” I sighed, my anger dissipating as quickly as his flames had. “Oh, Vlad, if you believed that, you would’ve told me what I wanted to hear to just appease me. You didn’t, which proves saying ‘I love you’ means more to you than everything else.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
-- Jennifer Egan -
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.
-- Joan of Arc -
Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe
-- Joe King -
When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.
-- Joe Perry -
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.
-- Johann Joachim Becher -
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.
-- Johannes Itten -
For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.
-- John Armstrong -
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.
-- John Armstrong -
Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.
-- John C. Norcross
