Quotes about flame
flames light darkness
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. John Milton
flames fuel may
He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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 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 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 flare
Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. Richard Paul Evans
flames tree listening
But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame. William C. Bryant
flames sea white
I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea! William Butler Yeats
flames tree half
A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew....
flames adequate income
I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Wilkie Collins
flames torches brighter
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. Walter Scott
flames fire charity
Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire. Saint Francis de Sales
flames numbers people
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame. Saint Augustine
flames fire burning
I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces? Yves Klein