Quotes with blown

  • Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
  • I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.

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  • Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Sri Sarada Devi As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Burt Bacharach I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Bill Bryson I'd turn on the lights, but they're blown. I'd offer you a seat, but there isn't one. I'd offer you a drink from the minibar, but there doesn't appear to be one. It certainly is basic. Basic? It's a bloody cell!
    In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Burr If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • James Whitcomb Riley It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
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  • Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • James Russell Lowell Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ronald Laing The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Bill Engvall There's a reason God didn't give me this success in my 20s, because I'd have blown it.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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