An Old Flame Quotes

#1. I recognize the vestiges of an old flame

Virgil

#2. My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

David James Duncan

#3. She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'.

Lois Greiman

#4. Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

Yeong-hun Kim

#5. Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.

Ezra Pound

#6. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

James Oppenheim

#7. I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.

Kool Moe Dee

#8. But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.

Lauren Oliver

#9. Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Hippocrates

#10. You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain," a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. "I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor - " "So I should call you Gandalf?

Karen Chance

#11. Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.

Herbert Lockyer

#12. In 1974 I was trying to get my first little band together. That year marked kind of a traumatic point in my life, but I had a lot of support from friends and family and a lot of good things ended up coming out of it.

Emmylou Harris

#13. Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

Kate Atkinson

#14. Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Tim Wise

#15. Aw, man, Ava, I should've gotten my own room!" Sully groaned. She

Cynthia Eden

#16. Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

Ann Reinking

#17. We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.

Elizabeth Warren

#18. The young... are full of hope and discontent... And the old are those who were once discontented, but who have successfully smothered that flame and have found security and comfort in various ways.

Krishnamurti

#19. ... I am left with less
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame.

Dante Alighieri

#20. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

John Allison

#21. Helena dreamed about the keepers of the fire. The poorest old women had stored it away in suburban kitchens and had only to blow very gently on their palms to rekindle the flame

Eduardo Galeano

#22. I want to do the reverse of what people would think.

Mark Indelicato

#23. Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!

Anthony Liccione

#24. The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.

Margaret Weis

#25. Her whole body flared to life with a fiery blush. Maybe that was why the term "old flame" had been invented. Somebody always got burned.

Susan Wiggs

#26. Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

Edward Abbey

#27. It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

Tom Waits

#28. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.

Virgil

#29. Sometimes I come home and still can't believe it's all mine.

Lorrie Fair

#30. Another phenomenon, still more strikingly modern, was a package of lucifer matches, which, in old times, would have been thought actually to borrow their instantaneous flame from the nether fires of Tophet.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#31. The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if, through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.

Leonard Ravenhill

#32. Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots ... The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.

Cornelia Fort

#33. Since the moment I saw her yesterday, I've been looking through the sparkly prism of exhilaration that comes with any old flame. But now, for the first time, I'm not just seeing what I want. I'm seeing what my friend needs.

Brad Meltzer

#34. The walls inside were charred from some ancient fire, blackened and lichened and weathered hard, smelling faintly of a smoke so old there may be no one still alive who could possibly remember the flame.

Jean Hegland

#35. What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#36. My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969.

Rick Perlstein

#37. If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Victor Hugo

#38. The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame

Samuel Selvon