Torches Quotes - Page 2

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.