#flame

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#brightly #brilliant #burn #burns #end

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged. ↗

— John Glover

#any #cutting #discouraged #flame #open

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#am #become #cautious #fire #flames

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? ↗

— Amy Grant

#away #does #else #everything #exposing

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#down #explodes #flame #go #i

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#gasoline #holding #lips #may #mouth

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#feats #flame #head #held #instead