Top 100 Extinguish'd Quotes
#1. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!
Dada Bhagwan
#2. In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#3. Was it right to extinguish those few bright spots for the sins of the many? On the other hand, was it okay to spare all the foul corruptions for the sake of a few?
Sean DeLauder
#4. How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
Arun Manilal Gandhi
#5. I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.
Arthur Rimbaud
#6. There is no amount of darkness that can extinguish the inner light. The important thing is not to spend our lives trying to control the environment around us. The task is to control the environment within us.
Joan D. Chittister
#7. 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
#8. We kill, kill, kill. Flesh, spirit, whatever gets in our way. It's like our whole purpose is to extinguish life. And for those who live, there's memory, like a curse. We're such a mixture of frailty and cruelty.
Douglas Clegg
#9. Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
Victor Hugo
#10. Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.
Alireza Salehi Nejad
#11. ... .You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive ...
Eknath Easwaran
#12. So much the worse for you!" he said mentally, like a man who, after vainly attempting to extinguish a fire, should fly in a rage with his vain efforts and say, "Oh, very well then! you shall burn for this!
Leo Tolstoy
#13. Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.
Emily Post
#14. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.
Thomas Brooks
#15. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
#16. Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#17. It pleases me that you teach sacred theology to the brothers, as long as - in the words of the Rule - you 'do not extinguish the Spirit of prayer and devotion' with study of this kind. - Francis of Assisi
Mark Galli
#18. Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.
Immortal Technique
#19. love and distance can be compared to fire and air. If the fire is like that of a candle a simple puff of ordinary air will extinguish it: but if the fire is a raging wildfire, then the wind will only fuel it to grow stronger.
Santana Blair
#20. Maybe because when hearts are set on fire, no complications can extinguish the flame.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#21. There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.
Publilius Syrus
#22. If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
Roger L'Estrange
#23. The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.
Nicolas Chamfort
#24. Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves.
George F. Kennan
#25. Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs in his shoes and the problem all started when the flight attendants asked him nicely to extinguish his feet. He was wearing exploding sneakers. The new Nike Air-Jihads!
David Letterman
#26. Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
Charles Simmons
#27. When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.
Anthony Kennedy
#28. No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.
Wes Fesler
#29. Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
Shams Tabrizi
#30. I wish I had a tray table in my bedroom and I wish I smoked, just so I could extinguish my smoking materials
Augusten Burroughs
#31. We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
Gaylord Nelson
#32. I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night,
blown and flared by passion's storm,
and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#34. The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.
Ronald Reagan
#35. I saw the vulnerabilities, the love, the history. That's what he was asking me to extinguish - the small child as well as the man - all that love, all that history. And
Jojo Moyes
#36. Every witch or wizard with a wand has held in his or her hands more power than we will ever know. With the right spell or potion, they can fabricate love, travel through time, change physical form and even extinguish life.
J.K. Rowling
#37. The world isn't always black and white. sometimes, it's gray, and sometimes that gray explodes into colors you never knew existed before.
J.M. Darhower
#38. It is a great truth that you cannot extinguish violence by violence.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#39. Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars.
S.K. Tremayne
#40. It is enough", this malicious man tells us, "to extinguish the line of the defeated prince." Can one read this without quivering in horror and indignation?
Frederick The Great
#41. God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Khalil Gibran
#42. At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
Tabitha Suzuma
#43. The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#44. You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.
Patrick Pearse
#45. Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?
Mary Shelley
#46. You're the angel that my demons beg to make fall. The pureness and light that my darkness wants to extinguish.
Harper Sloan
#47. People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might
Jeffery Deaver
#48. Human beings have a fundamental need for physical and emotional space, and the desire to extinguish another life can arise when the boundaries of that space are violated.
Kanae Minato
#49. Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#50. What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#51. Be the cyclone of love to extinguish the fire of hatred.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon
#53. To believe in a universe as young as 6- or 7,000 years old, is to extinguish the light of most of the galaxy.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Bury the embers, extinguish the spark
We plunge ourselves in the well of dark
Far from voices that trouble and chatter
Down, deep down, where worries don't matter
Our minds all teem with the unseen thing
But night is a blink and sleep but a dream
Wake, wake, see things as they seem
Shannon Hale
#56. Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.
Daniel H. Pink
#58. He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.
Ayn Rand
#59. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space.
George Gordon Byron
#60. To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
Francis Bacon
#61. Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#62. I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need
to extinguish the dark flame inside me.
A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day.
A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.
Alyson Noel
#63. Life is more than a heartbeat, Mage. It's the essence of our souls and the fiber of our beings. It is the breath of imagination within our souls; it's the fire in our hearts that burns for change and progress. Extinguish the fire and you have killed the man, even if he still draws breath.
Dannika Dark
#64. Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
Kelly Gallagher
#65. The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
Ambrose
#66. What I set seems to never extinguish
Drake
#67. Because that's what parents do, without even thinking about it, that's what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they're adults no one can extinguish them. They'll burn so bright they can't be brought down.
Kim Holden
#68. It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell.
Henry Reed
#69. Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#70. Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness.
Morgan Rhodes
#71. Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.
Aleksandar Hemon
#72. Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire.
Muhammad
#73. If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark ... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
Tupac Shakur
#74. Hearing doctors tell you that you can't get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.
Padma Lakshmi
#75. When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
J. Michael Straczynski
#76. You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.
Pope Shenouda III
#77. Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?
Victor Hugo
#78. The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
Terry Waite
#79. Extinguish even the wee annoyance, as it will grow to become evil!
Michael Bussa
#80. The embers of time spark and flash but they, like all else, smolder and extinguish.
Ronie Kendig
#81. Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.
Shinjo Ito
#82. You don't even know me. (Adron)
Yes, I do. You try to hide what you are, but I see it. It shines through your bitterness with a brightness not even you can extinguish. (Livia)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#83. As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and Africa. Long after i am dead and gone, the light will continue to burn and be borne aloft, giving light and guidance to all people
Kwame Nkrumah
#84. This life you cry up so much is what I wanted to extinguish by suicide, whereas my dream, my dream - oh, it has revealed to me a great, new, regenerated intensity of life!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
Aaron Hill
#86. And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?
Felix Mendelssohn
#87. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A.E. Housman
#88. Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.
Christa Wolf
#89. Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander Hamilton
#90. Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind.
Oswald Mosley
#91. May the light of your love have enough power to extinguish all the darkness from the world.
Debasish Mridha
#92. Do not give in to the urge to extinguish oneself in the waters of the world, but instead be a light above those waters to help guide the way.
Neal Shusterman
#93. Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#95. It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
Selma Fraiberg
#96. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
Charles Duhigg
#97. Everything changes eventually, not necessarily for the bad, but not always for the good, either
J.M. Darhower
#98. Then, only then
would she realize that the life
that she created will extinguish with
nothing to offer but the sorrow that she
harvested in our souls and the holes that she dug
in our hearts.
A.P. Sweet
#99. If a house is burning, and bucket of water is thrown on the blaze and doesn't extinguish the fire, this doesn't mean that water won't put out fire. It means we need more water. And so with nonviolence.
Dorothy Cotton
#100. When the waves of love, extinguish the fire of resentment, then the dawn of peace on earth will begin.
Debasish Mridha