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Quotes About Sparks

Thus, it is the task of man to redeem these shattered fragments, or sparks, to find in them their higher significance, and to restore them to their divine origin.
~ Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.
~ Adrienne Rich
You are dark, even as the flints are. You must come to violent conflicts and make a noise in order to produce your sparks. But their disconnected flashes merely assist your pride, and not your clear vision.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
One idea lights a thousand candles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
And Quell asked, 'Ah, but what is nature?' Socrates answered, sparks showering, 'God surprising himself with odd miracles of flesh.
~ Ray Bradbury
Envy and Arrogance and Avarice Are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled.
~ Joseph Conrad
Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.
~ Dante Alighieri
Eleanor was an extremely determined woman, and Henry an extremely determined man. Like flint and steel, they struck sparks. And yet, even after fourteen years of marriage, sexual fires still burned. There was more lightness than heat in their banter.
~ Dave Duncan
Then the righteous will shine like the sun and run about like sparks among reeds and all of you, I trust, will cease troubling me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
As Vivi drove, it seemed that not only the Ya-Ya's bodies but the earth and sky were sweating. The very air they breathed was almost a juice. Moonlight spilled down into the convertible, onto the four friends' shoulders and knees and on the tops of their heads, so that their hair seemed to have little sparks shooting off it. Vivi had no idea at all where she was headed, but she knew that whatever direction she went, her friends would go with her.
~ Rebecca Wells
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
~ John Tillotson
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Fire is calling my name. It is whispering words of encouragement, sweet things. It wants out, for me to fan the heat until it's a vortex that can't and won't be stopped.
~ Alexandra Bracken, Sparks Rise
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
One idea lights a thousand candles.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.
~ Shriram Sharma
They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.
~ Stefanie Powers
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
here and there in the barrios and the favelas, among those who have least, beat hearts of hope, fly sparks of Overcoming.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
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
The purest thought is totally ignorant of death. Death means the perpetual extinction of impertinent sparks. But it is the key of life.
~ Wyndham Lewis
Did you know that if you rub a cat's fur the wrong way with a piece of silk, you can make sparks? Little flickers of electricity conjured from your bare fingertips. it is the nearest thing to being a god. That is how I feel when I spar with you.
~ Deanna Raybourn
sparks are fragile things, and they need careful attention.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Sparks are warm while they last.
~ Susan Price, Ghost Song