Candle Quotes - page 6

The curtains were drawn, and the only source of light - indeed, the object to which my attention was suddenly exclusively drawn - was a lit candle on the kitchen table, that had probably originally been shaped like Snoopy but was now a mass of melted rivulets, as if Snoopy had fallen victim to some kind of flesh-eating virus. (Ben Croshaw)
Hindustan is a country which has few pleasures to recommend it.... Indians have no idea of the charms of friendly society, of frankly mixing together, or of familiar intercourse.... They have no horses, no good grapes, or musk melons, no good fruits, no ice or cold water, no good food or bread in their bazaars, no bath or colleges, no candles, no torches, not a candle stick. View quote
Babur
At dawn they came and took you away. You were my dead: I walked behind. In the dark room children cried, the holy candle gasped for air. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. View quote
Ivan Illich
Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. View quote
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The third article was union. [...] By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all. We have discovered that every child who learns, every man who finds work, every sick body that is made whole-like a candle added to an altar-brightens the hope of all the faithful. So let us reject any among us who seek to reopen old wounds and to rekindle old hatreds. They stand in the way of a seeking nation. Let us now join reason to faith and action to experience, to transform our unity of interest into a unity of purpose. For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred-not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet. View quote
Bear Grylls
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. View quote
Jennifer Donnelly
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind. (Amy Bloom)
For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade. View quote
Yotam Ottolenghi
I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy. View quote
Jo Brand
Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me. View quote
Kirk Cameron
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out. View quote
Katherine Dunham
I wrote A Wrinkle in Time when we were living in a small dairy farm village in New England. I had three small children to raise, and life was not easy. We lost four of our closest friends within two years by death - that's a lot of death statistically. And I really wasn't finding the answers to my big questions in the logical places. So, at the time I discovered the world of particle physics. I discovered Einstein and relativity. I read a book of Einstein's, in which he said that anyone who's not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe is as good as a burnt-out candle. And I thought, "Oh, I've found my theologian, what a wonderful thing." View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
The conditions at IISc were no match to the American centres but it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. View quote
C. N. R. Rao
4522. The Fly, that playeth too long in the Candle, singeth her Wings at last. View quote
Thomas Fuller (writer)
It is a bitter thing that each of us must finally be blown out like a candle, and have the unique ardor of his individual flame choked off, and sucked utterly away like smoke in the dark. Do we ever accept this in our hearts, any of us? The waste of knowledge! It never ceases to be...infuriating. View quote
Michael Shea
I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions. View quote
Alastair Campbell
I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.' (Al Seckel)
I was eating beans by candle light for a decade. View quote
Eric Andre
I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home. View quote
Erin Heatherton
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. View quote
Henri Rousseau
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned. View quote
Jeph Jacques