Burning Torch Quotes

#1. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67

Kahlil Gibran

#3. I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that voyagers to God can rip the veils
And see the real goal.

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#4. I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.

Rachel Cohn

#5. I was thrilled, heartbroken, hilarious, insane.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#6. Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Franz Grillparzer

#7. Your heart is burning strong with righteous indignation... That flame is scattering sparks that may set fire elsewhere. That fire of yours will one day spread to others seeking a just world. The point is whether you have a torch in your heart or not. To light a fire to others.

Sui Ishida

#8. She didn't watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning.

Ray Bradbury

#9. Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

Flea

#10. I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

Sherri Saum

#11. Money to a writer is time to write.

Frank Herbert

#12. They rode out together from the shadows of the trees, leaving the Bala Hissar and the glowing torch of the burning Residency behind them, and spurred away across the flat lands towards the mountains ...
And it may even be that they found their Kingdom.

M.M. Kaye

#13. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn.

Sabaa Tahir

#14. It is said that in the Grecian sports they had one game where the men ran with lights. They lit a torch at the altar, and ran a certain distance; sometimes they were on horseback. If a man came in with his light still burning, he received a prize; if his light had gone out, he lost the prize.

D.L. Moody

#15. Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.

Shania Twain

#16. Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

Rajneesh

#17. I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!

Lin Shaye

#18. The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

James A. Forbes

#19. Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

Kathy Change

#20. The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife.

Amrita Pritam

#21. Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Charles R. Swindoll

#22. His eyes are unfathomably sad as he lifts my chin. "Most people," Cain says, "are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare to let yourself burn." "Just

Sabaa Tahir

#23. You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

Karel Capek