Ignis Quotes

#1. Capitalist production ... was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All earlier forms of society were too poor for this.

Friedrich Engels

#2. Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca.

#3. There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

Sinclair Lewis

#4. I've got an adjective that just fits you.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

William Boyd

#6. You're mine. My obsession. My dreams. My hope. My heart.

Katy Evans

#7. Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

#8. The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Isaac Newton

#9. The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small-
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all.

Emily Dickinson

#10. Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

J. Martin Klotsche

#11. I miss the sound of your voice, the loudest thing in my head

Matt Nathanson

#12. Why rush through things when life should be cherished? Take a step back and see the big picture.

Atlanta Hunter

#13. True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

Ralph Cudworth

#14. I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

#15. I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Frank Richard Stockton

#16. If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

Malcolm Wallop

#17. I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.

Ted Danson

#18. God, you are my refuge into eternity

Sophie Scholl

#19. When we persist in looking for and finding what there is to value within our self, we discover a pure and loving being.

Hugh Prather

#20. Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it.

John Adams