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. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. View quote
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." View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Fannie Flagg
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Gregory Maguire
A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Nicollette Sheridan