Beam Quotes
218 quotes by 188 authors
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Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles
— Du Fu
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and…
— Karel Capek
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it…
— Johannes Stark
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We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we…
— Johannes Stark
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The abstractionist and the materialist thus mutually exasperating each other, and the scoffer expressing the worst of materialism, there arises a third party to occupy…
— Marsilio Ficino
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If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is…
— John Calvin
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The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention,…
— Dave Eggers
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Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely . . . . Live…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.
— Shannon Miller
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Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The…
— Danny Hillis
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety.…
— Jean Plaidy
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Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful…
— John Jewel
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During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a…
— Otto Neurath
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In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in…
— John Milton
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When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each…
— John Milton
Who Wrote These Beam Quotes
188 authors contributed a total of 218 Beam Quotes, led by these top contributors: