Inextinguishable Flame Quotes & Sayings

I feel unspeakably lonely. And I feel - drained. It is a blank state of mind and soul I cannot describe to you as I think it would not make any difference. Also it is a very private feeling I have - that of melting into a perpetual nervous breakdown. I am often questioning myself what I further want to do, who I further wish to be; which parts of me, exactly, are still functioning properly. No answers, darling. At all. — Anne Sexton

Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from the roll of nations; but the generic spark is there, and will flame up to the end of time distinct and inextinguishable! — W.C. Corsan

The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human. — David Dunn

Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ... of the main strengths of each. Each is attentive to clues, each must narrow the choice, must strive for precision. As George Grosz says, "In art there is no place for gossip and but a small place for the satirist." The objective is fertile procedure. Is it not? Jacob Bronowski says in The Saturday Evening Post that science is not a mere collection of discoveries, but that science is the process of discovering. In any case it's not established once and for all; it's evolving. — Marianne Moore

The divine flame of thought is inextinguishable in the Filipino people, and somehow or other it will shine forth and compel recognition. It is impossible to brutalize the inhabitants of the Philippines! — Jose Rizal

When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open). — Andy Roddick

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves. — LaTanya Richardson

The reason why the Great Pyramid of Giza has Earth's circumference figure embedded in it is not because ancient Egyptians knew that number, but because they were observing the horizon and the lunar movement. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray ... — Don Henley

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. — Haniel Long

Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. — George Santayana

Be very sure, my son, God is the only adviser to be trusted, and you must do what he tells you, even if it lead you to a stake, to be burned by the slow fire of poverty. - O my Father!" cried the old man, breaking out suddenly in prayer, "my soul is a flickering flame of which thou art the eternal, inextinguishable fire. I am blessed because thou art. Because thou art life, I live. Nothing can hurt me, because nothing can hurt thee. To thy care I leave my son, for thou lovest him as thou hast loved me. Deal with him as thou hast dealt with me. I ask for nothing, care for nothing but thy will. Strength is gone from me, but my life is hid in thee. I am a feeble old man, but I am dying into the eternal day of thy strength. — George MacDonald