Candle Wick Quotes

#1. Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

#2. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos, and a life without sacrifice is abomination.

Annie Dillard

#3. Even if I did climb to the top of that mountain one day, people will never stop seeing my color first, before me.

Stacey Lee

#4. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

Algernon Blackwood

#5. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

Annie Dillard

#6. 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

#7. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

David Ohle

#8. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to flicker and hiss like a candle burnt to its wick, making longevity impossible without a new energy source.

B.G. Bowers

#10. Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.

Mike Krzyzewski

#11. Old soldiers sometimes say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." (A foxhole, in military slang, is a shallow pit in a dangerous place on the battlefield.)

N. T. Wright

#12. If you devote yourself to God, then He in turn will continually stay with you, as an eternal candle flame stays with a wick, feeding off the overflow of wax; yet reshaping into something better.

Anthony Liccione

#13. My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

Normandi Ellis

#14. I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit

Laura Marling

#15. 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

#16. The primary means-of-reviva l that everyone agrees upon is extraordinary prayer.

Timothy Keller

#17. Life," he said softly, "is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle..." He did not finish.
"A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said."I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.

S. Jae-Jones

#18. Cover the downside.

Richard Branson

#19. Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

Tennessee Williams

#21. No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula ... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose.

Lauren Mayberry