It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
He must not laugh at his own wheeze: a snuff box has no right to sneeze.
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.
There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.
The damaged loves the damaged.
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
I just went to Times Square and the underground movies, sometimes three a day. I did get my education. But I really believed then, in 1966, they would not have allowed me to make any of the movies I made. Today, you could make a snuff movie at NYU and get an A.
Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.
So Disney has their full support behind it, which is great, but again it's got to be the right story. It's got to be a script that's up to snuff and worth going back for. The idea's there, the ambition's there, the excitement's there; but we need to have all the pieces in place before they would ever pull the trigger on that.
Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits.
While we welcome people of all faiths in America we cannot be so naive as to expect all countries to do the same. But we cannot allow their cultural mores to snuff out our religious freedoms or the freedom of women to have equal rights.