Sparks Quotes - Page 13

• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Knowing, Issues, Decision

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• For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

  Robert Musil

  Fire, Soul, Fool

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.189, Pan Macmillan

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• We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

  Barry Alvarez

  Games, Momentum

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• When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

  Paulo Coelho

  Live In The Moment, Mindfulness, Moments

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• A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

  Harry Behn

  Art, Flower, Roots

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• Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Love, Life, Spiritual

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• When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand.

  Tommy Mottola

  Hands, Giving, Feelings

  "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.

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• All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Flames, Divinity

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• Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

  Home, Fire, Hope And Love

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• The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Energy, Different, Bases

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• My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

  Edmond Rostand

  Heart, Men, Mustache

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• One must seek the shortest way and the fastest means to get back home-to turn the spark within into a blaze, to be merged in and to identify with that greater fire which ignited the spark.

  Bhagawan Nityananda

  Home, Mean, Fire

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• Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

  Frank Bruni

  Book, Reading, Passionate

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• I don't see any sign of God in this world, in the place where we live and things we know. It can all be explained to my mind perfectly satisfactorily without God. But in the great darkness beyond this little spark of light where I live, of course there may be all kinds of things. There may be a god. So I'm really an agnostic.

  Philip Pullman

  Light, Darkness, Mind

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

  Michael Moore

  Jobs, Dad, Littles

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• I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Soul, Energy

  "Transcript: Bill Moyers Interviews Bharati Mukherjee". "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 20, 2003.

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Trying, Bombs

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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• What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Heart, Technology

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Creative, Way

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• Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.

  Kit Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Inspiration

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• The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.

  Sally Kohn

  Heart, Fire, People

  "ORIGIN FEM SERIES: Sally Kohn – CNN Columnist". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'll get into conversations with other people, and all of a sudden they will say something that sparks that... either the titles to me, or just the conversation itself will spark an idea for a song.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Song, Ideas, People

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• I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Helping Others, Light, Mind

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