Sparks Quotes - Page 32

• A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

  Suzanne Collins

  Enough

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.576, Scholastic Inc.

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• Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks. There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart. There is mystery unfolding.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Dream, Healing

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Disappointment, Frustration, Needs

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• Devotion is the spark that can fire up your chemistry and energy to such a level that it creates an explosion of ecstasy within you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Fire, Energy

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• Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

  Robert W. Service

  Healing, Dark, Night

  Robert William Service, “Weary”

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• Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Eye, Moments, Mets

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “The Shuttle: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.263, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Essentials, Body

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1036, Simon and Schuster

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• After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever-fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look I see fire; that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Fire, Flames

  "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek". Book by Annie Dillard, 1974.

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Humor, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind. The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

  Marva Collins

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marva Collins (1990). “Marva Collins' Way”, Tarcher

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• The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

  Igor Sikorsky

  Positive, Work, Moving

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• I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

  Richelle Mead

  Heart, Flames, Shadow

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.226, Penguin

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• You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

  Louise Erdrich

  Understanding, Brain, Wire

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

  Philip Sidney

  Sympathy, Affliction, Favour

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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  Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
  That's a' the learning I desire.

  Robert Burns

  Teacher, Nature, Teaching

  'Epistle to J. L[aprai]k' (1786) st. 13

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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Moving, Hero, Play

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• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Moving, Wheels

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• Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.

  Peter Bondra

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• A boy comes to me with a spark of interest. I feed the spark and it becomes a flame. I feed the flame and it becomes a fire. I feed the fire and it becomes a roaring blaze.

  Cus D'Amato

  Sports, Boys, Fire

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• If you're Strigoi," the boy interrupted loudly, "then why don't you have horns? My friend Jeffrey said Strigoi have horns." Dimitri's eyes fell not on the boy but on me for a moment. Again, that spark of knowing shot between us. Then, face smooth and serious, Dimitri turned to the boy and answered, "Strigoi don't have horns. And even if they did, it wouldn't matter because I'm not a Strigoi.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Boys, Knowing

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.210, Penguin

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Speaking of hope, did you see that shot Alec got off with his bow? That's my boyfriend." He beamed and wiggled his fingers; blue sparks shot from them. He shone all over. Only Magnus, Simon thought resignedly, would have access to sequined battle armor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blue, My Boyfriend, Battle

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Lost Souls”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better.

  Nicky Wire

  Thinking, People, Make You Think

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• A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Hope, Heart

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Love wakes much and sleeps little and, in sleeping, does not sleep. It faints is not weary; it is restricted in its liberty and is great freedom. It sees reasons to fear and does not fear, but, like an ember or a spark of fire, flames always upward, by the fervor of its love, toward God, and through the special help of grace is delivered from all perils and dangers

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sleep, Fire, Flames

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