Firebrand Quotes

#1. Help me to fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world.

Albert Schweitzer

#2. A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Edmund Burke

#3. In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore.

Alan Moore

#4. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.

Craig Thompson

#5. You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken.

Elly Blake

#6. Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action,

Raghuram Rajan

#7. I've never been the sort of firebrand that I've been made out to be. I'm actually quite a mild person.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Bad news has never been broken gently in my family. Because, breaking it gently takes a few extra seconds. And who's got that kinda time? Hey, we maybe failures, but we are very busy.

Christopher Titus

#9. Things perish. Gods have passed.
But song sublimely cast
Shall citadels outlast.

Theophile Gautier

#10. Life serves the risk taker.

Sophia Amoruso

#11. If you've been to Moscow, it's a really exciting and great city, but it still feels like you should be a little careful about which way you're going to step.

Kenneth Branagh

#12. I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.

Lizzy Caplan

#13. Customs have no reason; they simply are.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#14. Of course I will be dictating to you, Savannah. But please do not worry. I can assure you, I am quite good at it.

Christine Feehan

#15. Every shadow is evidence of sun.

Nichole Nordeman

#16. You never had me, Keaton, but I always had you.

Courtney Lane

#17. I talked for hours, and people listened because they hated the silence too. They were happy to create it, and then terrified by what they made. And so I came to understand the split at the root of the soul of all men.

Aliya Whiteley

#18. How did writing come to me? Like bird's down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, still now, not ended.

Rene Char