Rays Quotes

• When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Health, Doctors

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• Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

  Aldous Huxley

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Procrastination

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• Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.

  Arthur Eddington

  Wise, Light, Weight

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• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Friendship, Inspiring, Goodbye

  Washington Irving, William Irving (1824). “Salmagundi”, p.151

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• God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Fall, Heart, Clouds

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 17, 2012

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• I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

  Len Wein

  Fire, Lenses, Fingertips

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Reality, Poetry

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• The Saturnian Spirit, Satan...ensouls the...Primary Ray of Deity.

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Deities, Spirit, Satan

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

  Alexander Pope

  Cheerful, Morrow, Temper

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq: in six volumes complete : with his last corrections, additions, and improvements : together with all his notes, as they were delivered to the editor a little before his death : printed verbatim from the octavo edition of Mr. Warburton”, p.133

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• Tis use alone that sanctifies expense And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.

  Alexander Pope

  Use, Splendor, Expenses

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations”, p.403

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• I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Dust, Mind

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

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• Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Appreciation, Eye, Peculiar

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• The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Peace, Morning

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Father, Light, Sky

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• For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

  Isaac Newton

  Speak, Disposition, Certain

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• Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

  Thomas Gray

  Ocean, Dark, Caves

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 53 (1751)

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• As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Equality, Men, Boots

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.394

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• Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.

  Jean Houston

  Light, People, World

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• Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Moon, Men

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• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

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• Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

  Thales

  Two, Pyramids, Shadow

  "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.

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