Torches Quotes

If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

To get a roaster clean, send something like baked apples in it to a neighbor. Neighbors always return pans spotless, and you won't have to use a blow torch on it like you usually do.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).

I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.

Ne reprenez, dame, si j'ai aime , Si j'ai senti mille torches ardentes, Mille travaux, mille douleurs mordantes, Si, en pleurant, j'ai mon temps consume . Do not blame me, madam, if I loved, If I felt one thousand burning torches, One thousand labours, or one thousand scathing pains, If, in crying, I spent all my time.

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.