As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.
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.
Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH
Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.
He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.
I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.
We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
Pikachu, 'pika' is the sound Japanese say an electric spark makes. And 'chu' is the sound a mouse makes. So Pikachu is like an electric mouse.
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.
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.
You can't start a fire without a spark
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.