Extinguishing Quotes

#1. (To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave.

Stefan Molyneux

#2. Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.

Stephen Leigh

#3. Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.

William J. Clinton

#4. All of them running about, putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun. You come away lost." Of

David Gatewood

#5. Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. The beast lunged forward and grabbed up two townsfolk in its gaping maw. It munched down on them, extinguishing their screams in an instant. Blood oozed past its teeth and down its chin as it swallowed.

Adam Moon

#7. Price is not the same thing as value. Over the long term, value should be the same as a price that leads to proper decisions about consumption, exploitation, and investment, without extinguishing the resource.

Ian Harris

#8. Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.

Alain De Botton

#9. It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

Bill Bryson

#10. Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

Iqbal Sacranie

#11. But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Pope John Paul II

#13. As for the claim that drone 'pilots' are not engaged in the extinguishing of human life via video games, the military's own term for its drone kills - 'bug splat,' which happens to be the name of a children's video game - and other evidence negates that.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. A passion for learning ... isn't something you have to inspire with; it's something you have to keep from extinguishing.

Deborah Meier

#15. Death. What a brief word for the extinguishing of life. To be no more. To have days cut off and at their end. To never again ... anything.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

Adrian Tan

#17. Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

Theophan The Recluse

#18. The sun was extinguishing itself on the watery horizon.

P.W. Catanese

#19. Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Pope Francis

#21. Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.

Ray Bradbury

#22. What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.
("New York Blues")

Cornell Woolrich

#23. No longer will we (women) agree to protect the hearth at the price of extinguishing the fire within ourselves.

Celia Gilbert

#24. For every romantic possiblity, no matter how robust, there exists at least one equal and opposite sentence, phrase, or word capable of extinguishing it.

Malcolm Gladwell

#25. Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds.

Rumi

#26. She was in person full-limbed and somewhat heavy; without ruddiness, as without pallor; and soft to the touch as a cloud. To see her hair was to fancy that a whole winter did not contain darkness enough to form its shadow: it closed over her forehead like nightfall extinguishing the western glow.

Thomas Hardy

#27. Hell-bent on extinguishing

Barbara Longley

#28. It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it. The

Bill Bryson

#29. Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

#30. Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that? ... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

Andre Gide

#31. We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own.

Alaric Hutchinson

#32. The girl has proven herself to be more clever than I would have given her credit for. Kai dragged his hand through his hair, extinguishing an unexpected spark of pride.

Marissa Meyer