Beam Quotes

218 quotes by 188 authors

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in… — Robert Southey
Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...… — Charles Dickens
Let there be no doubt. Alien technology harvested from the infamous saucer crash in Roswell, N.Mex., in July 1947 led directly to the development of… — Philip J. Corso
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on… — Jennifer Carpenter
I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam… — Scott Bakula
He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does… — Dan Rather
When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car… — Mitch Hedberg
The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest… — Patricia Wentworth
Colored lights shone right across the northern sky, leaping and flaring, spreading in rainbow hues from horizon to zenith: blood red to rose pink, saffron… — Celia Rees
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and… — David Trimble
Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man. — Sappho
Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it… — Guy Gavriel Kay
No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections… — Richard Sibbes
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be… — George MacDonald
A powerful hand lens [Eschenback Leutchlupe] with a focused beam of light opens up an entire world below the threshold of the ordinary experience of… — Allen Lacy
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? — Luke the Evangelist
Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished… — Douglas V. Steere
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single… — Austin O'Malley
The Nile, draining out into the Mediterranean. The bright lights of Cairo announce the openingÂ of the north-flowing riverâ€™s delta, with Jerusalemâ€™s answering high beams… — Chris Hadfield
It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smitting on an anvil, sawing a beam, whitewashing a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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