Candle Quotes - page 2

Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself... (Philip José Farmer)

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

It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.

George Herbert

The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

Benjamin Franklin

This same Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candle lights.

Francis Bacon

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

Ray Bradbury

Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: "My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly." This stranger is a theologian. - Number VIII.

Denis Diderot

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

Milton Friedman

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Nadine Gordimer

How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

Edward Young

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? (Wernher von Braun)

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man."

Diogenes Laërtius

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis of Assisi

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Hugh Latimer

I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle, my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Neal Shusterman

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Fannie Flagg

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Jose Bergamin

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle.

David Nicholls

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Michael Grant

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by. (Madeleine L'Engle)

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle.

Gregory Maguire

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

James Keller

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Jeffrey Combs

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

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