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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
You told dad you didn't know what happened to his underwear. But You'd just flame-broiled his shorts on the grill.
Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person.
Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.
Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
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.
Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.
Come be the fire inside of me, come be the flame upon my heart. Come be the fire inside of me until You and I are one.
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.
I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.
Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
What would you pack for Armageddon? Sunscreen and shades? Flame-proof underwear? Maybe a travel guide to the Underworld?
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.
If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.
See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.
We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
Knowledge without Spirit is like finding yourself on a cold night with all the wood in the world and no flame to ignite it.