Candle Lights Quotes

#1. Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. We say God and the imagination are one ...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens

#3. We do not need the moon light or the sea waves to be romantic. We do not need nature breaths and rivers scenery to have dreams. We do not even need music tunes or candle lights to be passionate. All we need is enlighten and loving hearts to have and be all that.

Sameh Elsayed

#4. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights ... A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Francis Bacon

#5. As candle lights candle, [the spouses's] desire for each other kindles a desire for the Love of which their love is but a reflection.

J. Budziszewski

#6. Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming On the banks of the Wabash, far away.

Theodore Dreiser

#7. Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

Roger Waters

#8. A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness

Seth Czerepak

#9. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.

Giovanni Ruffini

#10. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.

Rumi

#11. I have no doubt that the fundamental problem the planet faces is the enormous increase in the human population

David Attenborough

#12. A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

#14. The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

Alice Rivlin

#15. A candle that lights another does not have to work as hard to bring forth light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#16. A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.

Elizabeth George

#17. Life is not About Be, Have, Do or being the Best, but To strive for get the best Feeling out of what we Be, Have, Do or Get.

Jan Jansen

#18. He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't want to get through.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#19. Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

Israel Meir Kagan

#20. Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

Anna Quindlen

#21. A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago ... tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.

Wes Adamson

#23. Keep driving," I said.
"Oh, really? I usually pull over and drape myself seductively over the hood of my car when I'm getting tailed by creepy stalkers," She said a little hysterically.

Rae Mariz

#24. Mr. and Mrs. Khurana were forty and forty, and they had suffered the defining tragedy of their lives, and so all other competing tragedies were relegated to mere facts of existence.

Karan Mahajan

#25. Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

William Arthur Ward

#26. Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Robert Reich

#27. She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

Michael Ondaatje

#28. How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.

Sri Chinmoy

#29. Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Bill Cosby

#30. If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. There's something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

Tim Cook

#32. I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.

Tim Heaton

#33. So, in the name of science, I demand that we mess around with guns!

Andrew Hall

#34. If you are constantly looking over your shoulder at the competition you are not concentrating on the path ahead

Leonie Mateer

#35. The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

Dan Gilroy

#36. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies