Quotes About Ignition

even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.

But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

It was difficult to know which part of the government would ignite first. The Supreme Court had plenty of dry kindling: most of its justices were old men born in the previous century. Congress was eternally bickering. And no executive had ever underperformed quite as spectacularly as James Buchanan.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Sometimes you just need a spark, and then boom, boom, boom, now the bats come alive.

In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

They were match and striker, each to the other. They touched and were set afire.

I think they both have to be lucky. It's like, luck friction. One's flint and one's steel, striking together to make fire.

Eran como acero y pedernal: se tocaban y se prendían fuego.

The inextinguishable lesbian spark. You've surely heard about it? The one that was first ignited at Lesbos, because Sappho was so sad every time a young woman left the academy that she wrote her a poem. Fancy being sad because someone leaves! Perverted, that's what I call it. Don't you?

The dry tinder of inequality was everywhere, just waiting to be set on fire.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.

The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

Indeed, the big point of this chapter is not about technology per se. No technology, no matter how amazing—not computers, not telecommunications, not robotics, not the Internet—can by itself ignite a shift from good to great. No technology can make you Level 5. No technology can turn the wrong people into the right people. No technology can instill the discipline to confront brutal facts of reality, nor can it instill unwavering faith.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Just one such faint spark can set the whole world on fire.

A determined man could build one hell of a blaze from one good spark.

The world was going to burn, and he was holding the match.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves