Shafts Quotes

33 quotes by 29 authors

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much… — Oliver Goldsmith
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the… — Andrew Peterson
ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. — Ambrose Bierce
Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise,… — Honore de Balzac
I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the… — Ben Crenshaw
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
Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs,… — Evan Davis
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of… — Rumi
This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — SaigyÅ
Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers... — Isaac D'Israeli
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. — Oliver Goldsmith
In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. — Powell Clayton
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must… — Felicia Hemans
Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard. — James Huneker
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom — Robert Herrick
Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light… — Alan Seeger
London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting. — Ruth Rendell
And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless… — Lawren Harris
The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is… — Thomas Pynchon

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