X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Candle" (395)

Page 10 of 17
Filter & Style
Image
In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.
Michael Grant
Image
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
James Joyce
Image
Great seas, he said. What do you want? He held the candle up to her face. Po, what do you want? She did a far better job than I would've done.
Kristin Cashore
Image
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Jerry Seinfeld
Image
I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
Mahmoud Darwish
Image
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar its precious light will be seen by everyone.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Image
If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet
Lee Donghae
Image
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
Anais Nin
Image
Show me a man who fishes in winter, and I'll show you a fanatic. Actually, I'll get the better of the deal, because for sheer spectacle a fanatic doesn't hold a candle to a man who fishes in winter
Patrick F. McManus
Image
My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.
Normandi Ellis
Image
Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Image
In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to the sounds of man, three miles away. The candle lit. . . only someone stripped of awe can leave a launch untouched.
Jonathan Alter
Image
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. Henry
Image
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne
Image
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.
Judah Leon Magnes
Image
My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.
Denis Diderot
Image
Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
Daniel Johns
Image
I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.
Richelle Mead
Image
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.
Frank Delaney
Image
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
Rumi
Image
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
Image
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.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Previous
Next