Quotes about flames
flames track mind
Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame. Thomas Gray
flames pay enthusiasm
Pay close attention to any flame of enthusiasm. Gretchen Rubin
flames water joy
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
flames fire break-out
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. Ernie Pyle
flames ideas inspire
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? Franz Schubert
flames shadow casts
The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow. George R. R. Martin
flames people wish
Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature. George Carlin
flames intensity
A flame burns brightest just before it goes out. Gene Tierney
flames two fire
Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once. Federico Garcia Lorca
flames yield giving
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will. Euripides
flames guy needs
I'm into flames these days. I'm a little guy who needs to do big things.
flames soul eternity
I feel the flame of eternity in my soul. Helen Keller
flames eggshells break
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
flames mortality made
But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering
flames might sunlight
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.
flames body bigs
For she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame. Janet Fitch
flames cities evil
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. Ernest Bramah
flames able rooms
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.
flames light movement
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? Muriel Rukeyser
flames actors
A lot of actors flame out. George Hamilton
flames lobbyists congress
Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom? Jay Leno
flames feet shining
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. Gerard Manley Hopkins
flames phoenix ashes
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes. J. K. Rowling
flames frozen flesh
Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —
flames phoenix firsts
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
flames agony causes
Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life...
flames wind poetry
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense. George Herbert
flames subconscious knows
It's this subconscious part of me that knows just how far to go, and suddenly, everything bursts into flames. Jeanne Moreau
flames ifs disregarded
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded. Horace
flames sky glory
True glory is a flame lighted at the skies. Horace Mann
flames two hypocrisy
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. Honore de Balzac
flames fire genius
Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.
flames gone impossible
Everybody who's played Marilyn Monroe before has gone down in flames. It's impossible to capture Marilyn Monroe. Harvey Weinstein