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Quotes About Inflamed

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly rich in the works of Nietzshe, Kerouac, and John Menlove Edwards...
~ Jon Krakauer
although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Anytime evil becomes organized, its ferocity breathes the air of hell. There is nothing that can quench that fury. It cannot be stopped until it has accomplished its purpose. That is why hell is unending. Its nature is to burn on the inside, and no outward consolation or influence can change wickedness that is inflamed by numbers. The
~ Ravi Zacharias
Because the air was thick with animal hair and dust, my nose was continually inflamed and runny, and every fifteen seconds I would sneeze. Any thought I could not explore, develop, and bring to some logical conclusion within fifteen seconds would therefore be forcibly expelled from my head, along with a great deal of mucus.
~ Douglas Adams
If Albuquerque was the ugly, dusty ass end of nowhere, then Farmington was the inflamed boil on that ass. If
~ Douglas Preston
I came across a man in Belgium once, a very famous detective, and he quite inflamed me. He was a marvellous little fellow. He used to say that all good detective work was a mere matter of method. My system is based on his—though of course I have progressed rather further. He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever.
~ Agatha Christie
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~ Thomas Otway
As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.
~ Tikhon of Zadonsk
Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.
~ Adam Smith
With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.
~ Zane Grey
But, alas, I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security;
~ Alexandre Dumas
I have heard it said that hearts inflamed by obstacles to their desire grew cold in time of security.
~ Alexandre Dumas
There was nothing humble in his gaze. Nothing brotherly, either. It was the kind of look that made Sililli's hackles rise. The look of a young animal, inflamed by Sarai's beauty and heavy with desire.
~ Marek Halter
we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...
~ John Geddes
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
~ Charles Inglis
This earth is hard symmetry This earth of feverish war This earth inflamed with hate
~ Sonia Sanchez
Damson plums were a favorite Elizabethan fruit and "eaten before dyner, be good to provoke a mans appetyde." They were also popular dried into prunes. It is unclear why, perhaps because they allegedly inflamed men's appetites, but stewed prunes were a favorite dish at Elizabethan brothels and also were a synonym for prostitutes. Shakespeare mentions prunes in that context in King Henry IV, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Measure for Measure.
~ Francine Segan
There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.
~ Kate Chopin
TV and radio debates seem inflamed, with all that shouting, but real disagreement is always avoided; they conceal their lack of content.
~ Claire Fox
It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.
~ Charles Stross
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
~ Owen D. Young
Against a heart inflamed with love, burning with unquenchable fire, a ruthless tyrant, cruelly armed, wages war, but all in vain. From every attack a victor, Love will always triumph. - Rosina
~ Gioachino Rossini
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
~ John Milton