Flames Quotes

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

Silence is like a flame, you see?

You will not see that desire begets love, until it all flames into one concise and metallic blaze.

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.

I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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.

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

You need a bad operation. Gimme the scissors, hammer, flame.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

Mine is an enthusiastic and dionysian pessimism, like a flame that sets my vital exuberance ablaze, that mocks at any theoretical, scientific or moral prison.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance.

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned