Woodrow Wilson Quotes, War Quotes, Flames Quotes

The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , War Quotes , Flames Quotes

The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Light Quotes , Flames Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Men Quotes , Flames Quotes

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Flames Quotes

It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Flames Quotes , Hot Quotes

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Flames Quotes , Tiny Things Quotes

If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Love Quotes , Flames Quotes

Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Fire Quotes , Flames Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Numbers Quotes , Flames Quotes

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Flames Quotes , Grace Quotes

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Healing Quotes , Flames Quotes

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Stars Quotes , Flames Quotes

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Flames Quotes , Broken Quotes

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Past Quotes , Flames Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Flames Quotes , Events Quotes

Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Blessed Quotes , Flames Quotes

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wrath Quotes , Flames Quotes

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Flames Quotes , Ideas Quotes

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Flames Quotes

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Flames Quotes , Depth Quotes