Flames Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Looks, Earth

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• It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

  Natan Sharansky

  Israel, Hatred, Fans

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• I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

  Harold H. Greene

  Night, Three, Four

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• You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So, you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.

  Paul Hogan

  Nice, Night, Careers

  Remarks at the 59th Academy Awards (On Oscar Acceptance Etiquette), delivered 30 March 1987, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles

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• The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

  Terence Fisher

  Reflection, Glasses, Hands

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Dust, Burning

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• You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Business, Lying, Thinking

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• There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

  Nicollette Sheridan

  Hair, Gone, Firsts

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• Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

  Ernst Zundel

  Sleep, Toronto, Rooms

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  Karel Capek

  Stars, Hands, Ideas

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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• Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

  Kenneth Rand

  Life, Winning, Naked

  Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”

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• Love is a divine flame.

  Catherine of Genoa

  Love Is, Divine

  St Catherine of Genoa “The Life and Doctrine of Saint Catherine of Genoa”, CCEL

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• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Together, Use

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.41, 谷月社

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• I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Running, Fire

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• We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Light, Forever, Special

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fire, Soul, Deities

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “The Home and the World”, p.19, Rabindranath Tagore

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• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  William S. Burroughs

  Beautiful, Cat, Eye

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• Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

  Jane D. Hull

  Lakes, Cities, Yesterday

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Journey, Laughing

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Soul Stories”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

  Harry Houdini

  Fire, Mouths, May

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation

  Angelina Grimke

  Christian, Faithful, Slavery

  Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.155, Penguin

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• Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

  Jay Inslee

  Creativity, Light, Effectiveness

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