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My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles. — Evangeline Lilly

When the candles are out all women are fair. — Plutarch

Sammy suns?" Sam laughed derisively. "They might as well be candles. — Michael Grant

Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops. Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare

I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home. — Erin Heatherton

The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one — Virginia Woolf

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

One idea lights a thousand candles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful. — Rufus Wainwright

My children's faces are private candles i sometimes worship at ... — Deborah Keenan

I put the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July to shame. Who needs Roman candles when you've got me? — Joe Hill

The more candles on my cake means I get a little more exercise in blowing them out. — Donna Lynn Hope

Rigga, Riggalai the Seer, the wax-witch who trapped souls in candles and burned them. Souls devoured in flame - — Steven Erikson

It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true. — Jessica Sorensen

Twilight of the idols, it cursed from the worship of the extinguished candles. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes. — Susan Patron

Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken. — Lorraine Heath

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark McCormack

At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake. — John Newcombe

I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms. — Mary J. Blige

Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. — Tim Vine

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. — Rumi

Shall we take these candles with us and sit for a while on the piazza, or do you want to go to bed and nurse that tooth?"

Nurse that tooth. — Vladimir Nabokov

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor) — Edgar Allan Poe

Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you. — Evangeline Lilly

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. — Rumi

It was a shrine. Josie hadn't thought to do that. She had no shrine, no candles. She only knew how to kill the thing she loved — Janet Fitch

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. — Philip Pullman

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura
and so goodbye ... — Tennessee Williams

How I would like to believe in tenderness
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes. — Sylvia Plath

The winds of tribulation, which blow out some men's candles of commitment, only fan the fires of faith of others. — Neal A. Maxwell

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. — Lynn Schooler

What did the candles smell like?" she asked.
Was she kidding me?
"Like Eau du Zombie. I don't know. — Karina Halle

Before she cut her birthday cake, she cast a wish, then blew the candles out from his eyes. — Anthony Liccione

It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake. — Louie Giglio

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery. — Maria Monk

I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent. — Deirdre O'Kane

No man had need of candles when the sun awaited him. — George R R Martin

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons. — George R R Martin

I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music — Greyson Chance

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it. — Herman Melville

You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open. — Richelle E. Goodrich

These blessed candles of the night. — William Shakespeare

Pott's, to whom I handed the work for translation, giving him a box of sperm candles — Herman Melville

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles. — Mary Balogh

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!.. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love prayer candles, and I use them often. — Marianne Williamson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness. — Elizabeth Goudge

I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

He seemed to be having a staring contest with one of the candles — Kim Harrington

Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mom: Billy, at your birthday party you'll have a cake with five candles! Billy: I know, mommy, but I want five cakes with a candle. *** — Various

I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.' — Jody Watley

Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling. — Erin Morgenstern

O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. — William Butler Yeats

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice

If you never saw the stars, candles were enough. — Maggie Stiefvater

You meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' — Carlos Santana

One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle. — James Altucher

You are a candle lit by God to light other candles. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I like to chew candles. — J.D. Salinger

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. — Tennessee Williams

There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles. — Craig Ferguson

The poet I saw once ...
but whose words have long been
in my mind, windows of invincible candles ... — Nathalie Handal

In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates. — Tyler Joseph

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Budha

Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness . — Gaurav Rao

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. — George Carlin

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. — Irwin Shaw

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them. — Joseph Kanon

Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake — Margaret Peterson Haddix

I found the candles - atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine. — Richelle Mead

A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The ... office was decorated in early American Earth Mother, with spider plants, hemp wall tapestries, and beeswax candles. — Karen Neches

Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness! — Timothy Pina

I don't think our humanity is on some switch. I think it's more like candles on a cake. It takes a lot to blow them all out at once. — Jewel E. Ann

Pie can't compete with cake. Put candles in a cake, it's a birthday cake. Put candles in a pie, and somebody's drunk in the kitchen. — Jim Gaffigan

Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends. — Tom Baker

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. — Bob Hope

My mother still thinks of things to do for him. Light church candles, name a star, send money to somewhere. — Yannick Murphy

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. — Joan Collins

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character. — Daniel Wu

... he had known darkness and despair, and emerged determined to light candles for everyone else. — Sebastien De Castell

I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on. — Ana Monnar

I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them. — Jared Padalecki

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness. — R. YS Perez

I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween. — Mary Page Keller

We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit. — Robert H. Shaffer

I think a bad place for a fire would be the factory where they make those trick candles. — Demetri Martin

The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds. — Roger Stark

If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it. — Margaret Fuller

An idea lights a thousand candles. — Ralph Waldo Emerson