Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ronald Reagan

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.

Rumi

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Rumi

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.

Terence McKenna

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Stephen Malkmus

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.

Taylor Swift

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

Suzy Kassem

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

Tad Williams

Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.

Tacitus

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

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

Rumi

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.

Stephen Covey

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.

Sigrid Undset

the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

Steven Morrissey

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt...

T. S. Eliot

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.

Ralph Cudworth

True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Flames shooting out of the roof on the right side of the house and flames were later shooting out of the roof on the left side of the house.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

We wanted to put that flame out really fast.

Richelle Mead

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.

Richard Baxter

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 ?

Rebecca West

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.

Roy Yamaguchi

The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

Rick Riordan

trantulus casually roasted a marshmallow and reached out for it but the marshmallow commited sucide and dived into the flames.

Rachel Caine

Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

Rachel Caine

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

Rachel Caine

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.

Pete Townshend

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

Pliny the Elder

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

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.

Pope Benedict XVI

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.