"In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man."
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"What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”"
"From a small spark, Great flame has risen."
"Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you."
"In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE."
"a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought"
"Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium."
"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."
"Sparks Fly whenever you smile!"
"The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains."
"Every moment contains a spark of eternity."
"For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come."
"What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh."
"To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God."
"Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything."
"I do not wish to lose my temper because very shortly I will lose my head. Nevertheless, upon leaving this spark of earthly existence, I have this to say: I shall see you all very soon ... very soon."
"How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!"
"Never forget the essence of your spark!"
"I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot."
"The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by the wind itself."
"Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished."