Candle Quotes

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.

Girl, there ain't a boy in this town who can hold a candle to Beau Vincent with his shirt off.

Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him.

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?

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?

Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.

A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.

My candle burns at both ends

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.

Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.

When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

Great seas," he said. "What do you want?" He held the candle up to her face. "Po, what do you want?" "She did a far better job than I would've done.

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

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

Conscience is that candle of the Lord which was not quite put out.

Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.