Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cormac McCarthy

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Clifford Stoll

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

David Limbaugh

It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

Dante Alighieri

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

Dante Alighieri

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

Dante Alighieri

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Dante Alighieri

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

Dante Alighieri

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame.

William Shakespeare

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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.

Jane D. Hull

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Carl Sagan

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Cassandra Clare

So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I'll let you know.

I'm into flames these days. I'm a little guy who needs to do big things.

Ernie Pyle

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

Helen Keller

I feel the flame of eternity in my soul.

Cassandra Clare

What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

Cassandra Clare

But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering

Irving Layton

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

Irving Stone

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

Jack Kerouac

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Isaac Watts

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Then all of the sudden it was just flames shooting out from underneath the hood.

A flame that flickers and a mind that dithers has never given light to anyone.

Your flames are spreading... which are great and are like embodiments of truths. Your rays are reaching the sky.

Tyrus Thomas

They used to be a powerhouse program. I know they have 11 national championships. They lost their flame for a little bit, but now it's back burning. We've got to be ready to play because they're going to try to put their program back where it's supposed to be.

Janet Fitch

For she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame.

Ernest Bramah

Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

Cassandra Clare

Tessa looked quickly to Will, but he only crossed the room as he always did to lean against the fireplace mantel. Cecily had never been able to decide if he did this because he was perpetually cold or because he thought he looked dasing standing before the leaping flames.

Muriel Rukeyser

I am haunted by interrupted acts, introspective as a leper, enchanted by a repulsive clew, a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs. Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

Ken Burns

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.