Quotes About Extinguish

But first, blot out a few more sparks. Drown a few more stars.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

Time and age extinguish, even, the greatest flame

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small it enkindles the great.

In secret I have longed for it, for blindness can never suffice to extinguish the sight of the terrors of this broken world.

Power is the central promise of evil, the dark light of that lamp, because nothing extinguishes the soul more quickly than pride in power.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

the sentiments that Albertine had left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.

Que toda inteligencia brille y se extinga en ti durante el espacio de un relámpago.

mingled love and shame for our people, a mingled love and terror of white culture. And then (as if the result of these others), despair and a furious will to extinguish the self. My people's enemies have done this to me. But so have my own loved ones. My enemies took too much. My loved ones asked too much. Let me say with care that the blame is not symmetrical: my enemies forced my loved ones to ask too much of me.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great

Fires are best fought with water: It puts out the flames without adding to the blaze.

Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

firefighters cannot extinguish a fire in a twenty- or thirty-thousand-square-foot open floor area in a high-rise building. A fire company advancing a 2½-inch hoseline with a 1¼-inch nozzle discharges only three hundred gallons per minute and can extinguish only about twenty-five hundred square feet of fire.

Yet he personally vowed to more carefully expend his political energies. "I don't want to be a fireman anymore," he told SCLC staff. He promised to stop trying to extinguish racial fires created by Jim Crow, though he still planned to fan political flames at a time and place of his choosing.54

When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.