Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance.
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf HitlerIt is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone's beard.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergI do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch ... and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order ... by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
karen blixenOnce Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
mahmud tarziLove is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
jennifer bealsMoral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.
african spirMan is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.
George ChapmanI am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of it – that science is the highest personification of the nation. Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis PasteurI don't think I did anything great. Any Chinese or Olympics-loving torchbearer would protect the torch under such circumstances.
jin jingI'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.
kabirI want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.
yasser arafat"'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.'"
john greenLet 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, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
john f. kennedyThe scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
dennis kucinichIt is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergScience knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis PasteurOnce Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
"Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization."
While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeJudge not that ye be not judged; we carried the torch to the goal. The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night: Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.
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.
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
Islam was not a torch, as has been claimed, but an extinguisher. Conceived in a barbarous brain for the use of a barbarous people, it was and it remains incapable of adapting itself to civilization. Wherever it has dominated, it has broken the impulse towards progress and checked the evolution of society.