Tinder Quotes

• I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
  I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

  Sapardi Djoko Damono

  Rain, Love You, Clouds

  Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”

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• Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Opportunity, Substance, Texture

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• No offense to people who go on Tinder but I just feel like it's ruining romance, I really do.

  Sam Smith

  People, Romance, Goes On

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• I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Believe, Fire, Flames

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lying, Tomorrow, Folly

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• Same reason why young women on juries are not a good idea, they don't get it. They're not in that same life experience of paying the bills, doing the mortgage, kids, community, crime, education and health care. They're like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world... I just think, excuse them, so they can go back on Tinder and Match.com.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  "Fox News' Kimberly Guilfoyle Caught in Controversy After Comments About Tinder, Young Women Voters" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 23, 2014.

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• I have one girlfriend who is dating right now - she's divorced - and she's on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that's not a real game, but it's my favorite thing to do.

  Aisha Tyler

  Girlfriend, Real, Games

  "Aisha Tyler Is a Woman Men Can't Help But Love". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Would you ascend to Heaven and bodiless dwell?
  Or take your bodies honorless to Hell?
  
  In Heaven you have heard no marriage is,
  No white flesh tinder to your lecheries

  John Crowe Ransom

  White, Heaven, Body

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Wind, Knowing, Soul

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• There would be a blaze and a confusion, in which timid men would doubt whether the constitution would be burned to tinder or only illuminated; but that blaze and that confusion would be dear to Mr. Daubney if he could stand as the centre figure, the great pyrotechnist who did it all, red from head to foot with the glare of the squibs with which his own hands were filling all the spaces.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Hands, Feet

  "Phineas Redux". Book by Anthony Trollope, Ch. 34, 1873.

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• Ever since our first fathers by infection took this morbum sathanicum, this devilish disease, pride, of the devil, such tinder is our nature, that every little spark sets us on fire; our nature hath grown so light, that every little thing puffeth us up, and sets us aloft in our altitudes presently.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Father, Pride, Fire

  Lancelot Andrewes (2008). “Ninety-Six Sermons by the Right Honourable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, Sometime Lord Bishop of Winchester, Vol. V”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is the fixed that horrifies us, the fixed that assails us with the tremendous force of mindlessness. The fixed is a Mason jar,and we can't beat it open. ...The fixed is a world without fire--dead flint, dead tinder, and nowhere a spark. It is motion without direction, force without power, the aimless procession of caterpillars round the rim of a vase, and I hate it because at any moment I myself might step to that charmed and glistening thread.

  Annie Dillard

  Hate, Fire, Vases

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.69, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Sleep, Opportunity, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

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• Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

  Og Mandino

  Law, Goal, Details

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

  Laozi

  Beauty, Ideas, Heaven

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• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  Umberto Eco

  War, Fire, Flames

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• I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.11, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The Crone, the Reaper... She is the Dark Moon, what you don't see coming at you, what you don't get away with, the wind that whips the spark across the fire line. Chance, you could say, or, what's scarier still: the intersection of chance with choices and actions made before. The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.

  Starhawk

  Dark, Moon, Fire

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• After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

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• why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

  David Levithan

  Heart, Leave Me Alone, Ashes

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.20, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

  Jean Craighead George

  Night, Fire, Light

  Jean Craighead George (1991). “My side of the mountain”

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• I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

  Rumi

  Fire, Burning, Enthusiasm

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

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• Corncobs are the greatest fire-making tinder.

  Paul Engle

  Fire

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.152, University of Iowa Press

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• Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.

  Stephen Leigh

  Summer, Flames, Water

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• The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Book, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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