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Poor People get torchered, rich give money to watch. — Deyth Banger

Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the Kanes. — Rick Riordan

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me. — Angela Ruggiero

Only a small groundbreaking moment is enough to ignite a torch in the storm. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man. — Big Bill Morganfield

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. — Thomas Watson

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. — Jimmy Buffett

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch. — Joan Jett

Yeah? What're you planning?"
"She nixed the keg and the strippers, so I don't know. Maybe we'll have a bonfire and torch some furniture. — Jessica Martinez

If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand. — Hugo Chavez

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. — Albert Einstein

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder. — Kathy Bryson

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. — Stephen Hawking

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. — Shawn Wayans

Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre. — Chris Galford

The burning embers within me burst into flame / My body becomes a fire-lit torch. / Ho someone! Send for the mid-wife. — Amrita Pritam

Anything for Byron's least favorite apprentice. It's the least I can do since you took over my torch. — Rachel E. Carter

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. — Jennifer Beals

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

You're only 90. You've never been chased by a torch-carrying mob. — Josef

For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has yet been. — Virginia Woolf

She was monumentally, conspicuously damaged in a way that was, to us then, ineffably chic. — Katie Roiphe

Look this is hardly fair. You sold me impure petrol at black-market price and not even one shop could be put to the torch. — Saadat Hasan Manto

The light in a student is a spark;
the light in a master is a torch. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning. — Charles R. Swindoll

The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. — James Cash Penney

P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other. — Doug Benson

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened. — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope. — Margaret Fuller

As he landed Wade said, was stepping through a wall of treacle The light, on your carbine,' and pointed with the torch he himself held. — Neal Asher

Upon the earth appear'd, weeping, they bore Brave Hector out; and on the fun'ral pile Laying the glorious dead, applied the torch. — Homer

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. — Laurence Overmire

Earth looked as if some god had attacked it with a welder's torch, slashing away at it and leaving thin trails of incandescence. — Neal Stephenson

Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. — Jane D. Hull

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. — Adam Weishaupt

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation, — Carl Lewis

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress. — David Letterman

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it. — Ato Boldon

Bring a torch, if you've got one. It's as dark as hell and stinks of something far worse than cheese. — Anthony Powell

In a way I couldn't believe I'd carried a torch for her this far - I should have used it to set fire to her years ago. — Mike Gayle

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame. — Wilferd Peterson

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. — Winston Churchill

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed. — Euripides

Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you. — August Verona

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. — Thiruvalluvar

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi. — Ban Ki-moon

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience ... it is certain we cannot take a single step forward. — Voltaire

The man who finds a truth lights a torch. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation. — Jim Cummings

I'll admit,I may have carried a torch for him all these years.He just blew it out. — Jennifer Echols

If I were her? First thing I'd do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd. — Elizabeth Bevarly

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out. — Mahatma Gandhi

A learned man who doesn't restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself. — Shaykh Sa Di

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. — Ben Sweetland

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch. — Michele Bachmann

Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous — Muhammad Ali

She had a tattoo on the inside: the letters SPQR, a crossed sword and torch, and under that, four parallel lines like score marks. — Rick Riordan

Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It's not like I've spent my life beating he boys back with a flaming torch. — Michael Grant

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards. — Bhartrhari

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light — Michael Ondaatje

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision. — Seamus Dever

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch. — Alastair Reynolds

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration. — Voltaire

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely. — Bryn Terfel

You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn. — Margaret Atwood

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. — Jose Marti

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do. — Rosanne Cash

They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner. — Brad Stone

You want a torch or a candle, maybe? You've got your head so far up your own arse, it must be dark in there. -Sam — Kady Cross

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa

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. — Kabir

Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age. — Mahmud Tarzi

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation. — Billy Graham

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. — Walter Scott

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch. — Jaggi Vasudev

The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch. — Method Man

Don't look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters. — Sabaa Tahir

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it. — Ronald Reagan

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned. — Gautama Buddha

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. — Faith Baldwin

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. — Michael Ondaatje