Candle Quotes - Page 25

• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

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• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  Ben Harper

  Philosophy, Light, Shining

  Song: Diamonds On The Inside

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• God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

  Richard Sibbes

  God, Grief, Light

  Richard Sibbes (1812). “The Works of the Reverend Richard Sibbs, D.D. Late Master of Catharine-Hall in the University of Oxford, and Preacher of Gray's Inn, London: To which is Prefixed, a Short Memoir of the Author's Life”, p.201

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• The best thing about Ikea - I'm going to do a quiz here - the names. Do you know what a Floria Fin (ph) is? It's a candle. A Pogestra (ph) - table. A Bar Grick (ph) is a plate, an Eterleeg (ph) is a wine glass and a Scuggle (ph) is the name of my third nipple.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Wine, Names, Ikea

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had.

  Tamara Mellon

  August, Scent, Rooms

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• I’m imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles - we have them in our homes and cherish their light, but don’t light our homes with them. Readers of Lincoln’s era would likely be surprised at how well-lit our homes are, and I think it’s likely that we will be surprised at how well-read future book readers will be.

  Steve Leveen

  Book, Home, Thinking

  "Seven Ways Electronic Books Will Make Us Better Readers" by Steve Leveen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2010.

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• Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

  Harry Styles

  Running, Girlfriend, Dark

  "Oooh! Did Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards have a romantic night in last night?" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 4, 2012.

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• Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find out truths themselves; and after they have learned this, they no more need them than a well man needs a staff, or a grown-up child needs a walking-stool.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Men, Miracle

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.249

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• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  Edith Sitwell

  Sleep, Reality, Sea

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Dirty, Angel, Mafia

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.

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• If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Light, Be Kind, Would Be

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

  Zachary Levi

  Burning, Littles, Ends

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Flower

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• Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, Flames, Focus

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• Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

  Alice Cary

  Spring, Book, Autumn

  Alice Cary (1876). “The Last Poems: Of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.136

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• When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Flames, Life And Death, Effort

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• ... people are growing up in the slack flicker of a pale light which lacks the concentrated burn of a candle flame or oil wick or the bulb of a gooseneck desk lamp: a pale, wavering, oblong shimmer, emitting incessant noise, which is to real knowledge or discourse what the manic or weepy protestations of a drunk are to responsible speech. Drunks do have a way of holding an audience, though, and so does the shimmery ill-focused oblong screen.

  Adrienne Rich

  Growing Up, Real, Flames

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• Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

  Phillips Brooks

  Shadow, Devotion, Used

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• Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down. ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.

  Erma Bombeck

  Ifs And, Feet, Half

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• No, he was no such charlatan--
  Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
  Full of gasconade and bravado,
  But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
  Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
  Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
  His was the rental of half Havana
  And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
  Rich as he was, could hardly hold
  A candle to light the mines of gold
  Our Cuban owned.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Light, Gold, Hoboken

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• Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rocks, Flames, Focus

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• I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Design, Pet, Gone

  "Lisa Vanderpump Talks About Leaving Dancing With the Stars and What You Should Never Do at Her Restaurants". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. April 22, 2013.

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• He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Spiritual, Tired, Two

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• [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you won't even know what diaper rash is...shoot, I seen ladies rub it under they eyes and on they husband's scaly feet...Clean the goo from a price tag, take the squeak out a door hinge. Lights get cut off, stick a wick in it and burn it like a candle....And after all that, it'll still fry your chicken.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Baby, Husband, Eye

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• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

  John Arbuthnot

  Success, Knowledge, Dark

  Of the Laws of Chance Preface

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