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Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes

Now don’t you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I’m sitting. (Nick)

Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.

Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Seth: "You're what matters" Ash: "Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." Seth: "Every day, I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

She’s been hanging out with Nick.” – Acheron “Nick? As in I-hate-your-guts-Ash-go-die Nick?” – Tory

She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

So what do wolves do to date?” Nick asked. “We don’t date,” Vane said. “When a woman is in season, we fight for her and then she picks who mounts her.” Nick gaped. “Are you kidding? You don’t have to buy her dinner? You mean you don’t even have to talk to her?” He turned to Acheron. “Dayam, Ash, make me a wolf.

St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

That’s Ash’s baby. (Kyrian) Lucy, you got some ‘splaining to do. (Wulf)

The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

The past is a bucket of ashes

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more

Simi, why did Acheron send you here? (Astrid) To protect you from Thanatos so that your sisters don’t get all freaky and destroy the world. Or something like that. I don’t know why all of you fear the end of the world. It’s not so bad, really. At least then akri’s mama be free. Then she wouldn’t be so cranky at the Simi all the time. (Simi) Ash’s mother is still alive? (Zarek) Oh, akri get mad whenever I tell that. Bad Simi. I not talk anymore. I need food. (Simi)

There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one pleases without the subconscious fear of a maid who is waiting like a sentinel to place an ashtray where the ashes are going to fall.

The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash