#flame

If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american citizens #angry #blame #citizens #comparing

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. ↗

— Michelangelo

#beauty #day #end #eyes #flame

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#committee #determined #flame #good #knowledgeable

There will always be disputes between nations which, at times, will inflame the public and threaten conflicts, but the main thing is to educate the people of the world to be ever mindful that there are better means of settling such disputes than by war. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#better #between #conflicts #disputes #educate

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out. ↗

— Kelly Rowland

#blow #dreams #ever #fire #flames

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

#different #fantasy #flame #guilty #him

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#another #be thankful #being #burst #encounter

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#another #being #blown #deepest #each

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#arafat #began #decade #disposal #fan