Top 56 Wick Quotes
#1. 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
#2. That was my first impression of you, Aubrey. A wick drowning in melted wax, your flame in danger. Just one more gust of wind and you'd be lost. You'd become that lost girl, sad through and through.
Mimi Strong
#3. John Wick is a rousing action thriller of the sort rarely encountered in theaters these days.
James Berardinelli
#4. Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.
Jeff VanderMeer
#5. A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.
Mel Odom
#7. Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Blaise Cendrars
#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
#10. Don't you have anything to stop a dragon?" Lux asked, climbing as fast as he could in the tree. "The only way to stop a dragon is to stab it through its heart!" Wick shouted back. "Get out of the tree before it comes back!
Amanda Hocking
#11. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.
David Ohle
#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. 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
#14. The part I gave you is the wick. It's what makes the lantern work. You are my wick, Farrow. I need you to soar.
Lisa Marie
#15. As I walk , I light the lamp of my soul.
As I walk, I light the wick of another's soul.
Sima Mittal
#16. The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
Algernon Blackwood
#17. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
William Shakespeare
#18. Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.
Jean-Henri Fabre
#19. Love is like a match to a wick. It takes that right combination to strike a flame. But once the flame is there, it can either give warmth, die out or burn your world to ashes. Even kill you. It's how you sustain the flame, feed it, and moderate the amount of energy in balance.
Anthony Liccione
#20. The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
Ovid
#21. 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
#22. Rap is like a set-up ... a lot of games,
A lot of suckers with colorful names.
'I'm so-and-so,' 'I'm this, I'm that.'
But they all just wick-wick-wack.
KRS-One
#23. When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.
Lesley Nneka Arimah
#24. He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.
Groucho Marx
#25. Sorry, I just want a quick little summary of what you do."
Wick chuckled. "He already knows you're long-winded, mate."
Dov glared at him. "I'm sorry?"
Wick's smile split his face as he bumped his colleague with his shoulder and then turned to me.
Mary Calmes
#26. Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
Tennessee Williams
#27. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20
Thomas Watson
#28. Finally, slowly, like a newly lighted oil lamp gathering kerosene up into its wick, Wally's face began to glow. He turned to Mack Fulton. "Mack, you know what's on my mind?
Clive Cussler
#29. Blue bead on the wick,
there's that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god.
Denise Levertov
#31. Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).
Richard J. Foster
#32. 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
#33. Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned.
Meagan Spooner
#34. A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you ... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
Adrienne Rich
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.
Normandi Ellis
#38. Once a man offered me his heart and I said no. Not because I didn't love him. Not because he was a beast or white - I couldn't love him. Do you understand? In bed while we slept, our bodies inches apart, the dark between our flesh a wick. It was burning down. And he couldn't feel it.
Eduardo C. Corral
#39. Your love is the oil in my lamp of life. Your body the wick that burns casting a blanket of comfort over me as the darkness closes in ... I love you
Steven Strait
#41. 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
#42. Wick to be certain it was entirely extinguished. Energy like your energy.
Maggie Stiefvater
#43. 20 a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; 21 v and in his name the Gentiles will hope.
Anonymous
#44. Damn it, Ned. I'm a fucking dangerous man to play with!
Havan Fellows
#45. It's so easy to see people as less than they are, as less than people.
Lori Wick
#46. History repeating itself is history's oldest story.
Steve Wick
#47. Faithfulness began even before you met your intended.
Lori Wick
#48. It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room.
It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#49. I can think of God as my savior and even my friend, but I must never forget that He is God, and after He saves me, I must put myself in subjection to Him and His will.
Lori Wick
#50. Peace is an art as much as war is, and knowing when and how to negotiate peace is the art's highest form.
Wick Allison
#51. Every Christian has hurts and this is one of yours, but you go to God every time and He holds you.
Lori Wick
#52. I can't ask god why until I'm willing to ask why not.
Lori Wick
#53. It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.
John Wick
#54. The moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.
Lori Wick
#55. The Holy Spirit doesn't need your help.
Lori Wick
#56. I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.
S.W. Southwick
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