Beam Quotes - Page 7

• The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence, whether they will or not.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Sweet, Men, Together

  Ralph Cudworth (1843). “A Sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons, at Westminster, March 31. 1647”, p.34

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• Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Kindness, Spring, Rain

  Fredrika Bremer (1856). “Hertha”, p.143

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• I would love to see what's going to happen with science fiction with peoples' heads, because we still have people running around in the year 2050 or 2100 or 2200 and they have incredible technology and you see the effects: laser beams and rays and beaming down and beaming up. Incredible technical things happening, but everybody is still running around jealous, fighting, whacking, cheating. There's got to be something going on! Some kind of change. I'd like to see something starting to happen in that area, with the psychology of the human being and how that changed.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Running, Cheating, Jealous

  Source: www.mrmovietimes.com

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• I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the solar system, sendin' out beams of power and wisdom and law and order, and justice and injustice, and money and oratory, and talk and talk, and wind and everything, to the uttermost points of our vast possessions, and from them clear to the ends of the earth.

  Marietta Holley

  Country, Order, Wind

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• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

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• If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

  Ali MacGraw

  Baby, Media, Shining

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• ...it is the Far Right today that establishes the terms of the nuclear debate. And in this context, in a room ringing with hysterical pleas on behalf of Reagan's eerie laser-beam technology, the MacBundys of the world seem eminently, refreshingly sane.

  David Talbot

  Technology, Eerie, Lasers

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• And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.

  Elbridge Gerry

  Jesus, Cheer, Fall

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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316

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• Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Love, Heart, Winter

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• Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Moles, Opponents

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• No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united America settle upon it in one eternal sunshine. From beneath that humble roof went forth the intrepid and unselfish warrior, the magistrate who knew no glory but his country's good; to that he returned, happiest when his work was done. There he lived in noble simplicity, there he died in glory and peace.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Country, Gratitude, Peace

  "A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time Vol. V". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, 1888.

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• A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast.

  Ovid

  White, Rose, Erotic

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• You cannot behave appropriately, unless you perceive correctly. Once you perceive you are a beam of Light, that comes from the mind of God, you will carry yourself differently.

  Carlos Santana

  Light, Mind, Perceive

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• But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth;
  The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth:
  Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
  Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Flower, Health

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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• There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

  Charles Mackay

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Charles Mackay (1859). “Ballads and Lyrics”

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• Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

  Edward Young

  Cutting, Sound, Wit

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.204

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• We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

  C. S. Lewis

  Abuse, Weapons, Void

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• For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hero, Fighting, Men

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• When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
  But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Gnats, Shining

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.39, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Here's how I became myself: mess, failure, mistakes, disappointments, and extensive reading; limbo, indecision, setbacks, addiction, public embarrassment, and endless conversations with my best women friends; the loss of people without whom I could not live, the loss of pets that left me reeling, dizzying betrayals but much greater loyalty, and overall, choosing as my motto William Blake's line that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

  Anne Lamott

  Loyalty, Disappointment, Betrayal

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• The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

  Eleanor Porter

  Book, Light, West

  Eleanor H. Porter (2008). “Mary Marie (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Thinking, Joy

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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