Candle Quotes - Page 11

• Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Dream, Real, Cake

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• From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

  Rumi

  Running, Hurt, Fire

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Shadow And Light Source Both”

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• The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

  Ken Auletta

  Media, Digital Revolution, Electricity

  "Ken Auletta: "Digital is almost as disruptive to traditional media as electricity was to the candle business"". Interview with Maite Fernandez, ijnet.org. December 14, 2011.

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• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  Sean O'Casey

  Running, Drama, Inspiration

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.413, Faber & Faber

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• And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

  James Joyce

  Lying, Deceit, Done

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.700, Delphi Classics

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• Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

  Barry Hughart

  Darkness, Brain, Tiny

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.194, Spectra

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• Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

  N. T. Wright

  Christmas, Light, Rooms

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

  Lydia M. Child

  Fashion, Flower, Being Different

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• When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Dark, Light, Sitting

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• When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

  Pierre de Ronsard

  Eye, Fire, Light

  'Sonnets pour Hèléne' (1578) bk. 2, no. 42

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• Once the concentration camps and the hell-holes of the world were in darkness. Now they are lit by the light of the Amnesty candle; the candle in barbed wire. When I first lit the Amnesty candle, I had in mind the old Chinese proverb: 'Better light a candle than curse the darkness.'

  Peter Benenson

  Light, Darkness, Chinese

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• At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

  John Newcombe

  Cake, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  A. A. Gill

  Funny, Beach, Lying

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• It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

  Adrian Rogers

  Children, Dungeons, Locks

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.20, B&H Publishing Group

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• The Heart is like a candle,
  longing to be lit!

  Rumi

  Heart, Longing, Lit

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shining, Darkness, Needs

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• Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle,
  Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

  MF Grimm

  Nike, Jesus, Rap

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• My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Halloween, Eye, Light

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
  Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
  The tragedy of human love and need?
  Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

  George Sterling

  Brother, Stars, Night

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• Van Morrison is probably, at this point in time, my biggest influence as a vocalist. When we were making our last album I had a vinyl copy of 'Veedon Fleece' in the vocal booth in front of me, in the dorky sense. I think there were candles around, which is really tacky, but hey, I needed to channel Van the Man!

  Nate Ruess

  Men, Thinking, Tacky

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• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

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• It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

  Louie Giglio

  Party, Blow, Cake

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• If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
  I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
  Only your presence revives my withered heart.
  You are the candle that lights the whole world
  and I am an empty vessel for your light.

  Rumi

  Flower, Heart, Empty Vessels

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• Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

  John Selden

  Christian, Prayer, Light

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.61

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