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Source: Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness

“Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty”

Men Skills Management Rays Basil Management Skills

“Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.”

Thinking Men Brilliant Wit Former Latter Mutual Categories Rays Relentless Offspring Experimentation Effortless Combining Inventiveness Tricksters

Author:Vince Aletti

“Running has taken me on adventures great and small, at home and around the world. It has provided me with hope and perseverance on days when I had none-and even, once every great while, warmed me with that fleeting ray of sunshine known as glory. Running has taught me that I can do anything, just so long as I keep putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes that notion is metaphorical and sometimes not. In this way, I have been inspired to attempt things I would have never dreamed possible. And it all started with a single step.”

Source: To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

“Consultation and compliance can conduce little to the perfection of any literary performance; for whoever is so doubtful of his own abilities as to encourage the remarks of others, will find himself every day embarrassed with new difficulties, and will harass his mind, in vain, with the hopeless labour of uniting heterogeneous ideas, digesting independent hints, and collecting into one point the several rays of borrowed light, emitted often with contrary directions.”

Source: Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings

“I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.”

“Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.”

May Reason Atheism Prove Positive Atheism Rays

Book:Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

Source: Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck

“When I first heard from the lips of Lucretia Mott that I had the same right to think for myself that Luther, Calvin, and John Knox had, and the same right to be guided by my own convictions, and would no doubt live a higher, happier life than if guided by theirs, it was like suddenly coming into the rays of the noon-day sun, after wandering with a rushlight in the caves the earth.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Earth My Own Sun Doubt Heard Atheism Higher Lips Conviction Wander No Doubt Rays Caves Luther Noon Happier Life

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“The kindest compliments I have ever heard are when cops tell me Training Day and Assault on Precinct 13 inspired them to become cops. The funniest compliments I have ever heard are when people tell me that 'I love your band Sugar Ray.”

People Funny Heard Love You Band Training Inspired Compliment Rays Sugar Cop Assault

Author:Ethan Hawke

“There are, occasionally, writers who are able to combine both story and style. They are, of course, the best. You get a spectacular view and you also get to look at it from the backseat of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. In the field of fantasy, those writers able to combine story-as-narration with story-as-style are even rarer. But there are a few...the late Theodore Sturgeon, the early Ray Bradbury...and Richard Christian Matheson. A brilliant chip off the old block.”

Looks Stories Able Christian Courses Views Fantasy Style Fields Late Driven Brilliant Block Rays Chips Spectacular Narration Cadillacs Backseat Theodore Chauffeurs Bradbury

Author:Stephen King

“Tim Thomas is about excuses. It's always somebody else's fault. He said I was jealous? He should thank me for helping him get that contract. He said I didn't show? They traded me, they traded Ray, they traded Big Dog [Robinson] and Tim Thomas still wasn't the man on that team. Michael Redd became the man there. I think I'm doing quite well for myself here. Right now, he needs to focus on his game. Right now, he's not a good basketball player. And I like Tim Thomas. He just has too many damn excuses.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Wells Said Stills Helping Shows Bigs Games Focus Player Team Dog He Man Right Now Basketball Faults Excuse Damn Contracts Jealous Rays Basketball Player Good Basketball

Author:Sam Cassell

“I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!”

Two Black Keys Glasses Pairs Rays Bans Ray Bans

Author:Christa Miller

“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.”

People World Has Beens Light Earth Consciousness Sun Rays Transformed Luminous

Author:Jean Houston

“Sunglasses are a bit like watches for me - a real obsession. My favourites are Oakleys, Ray-Bans and Wileys, which are worn by the U.S. military.”

Real Bits Watches Military Obsession Rays Worn Bans Sunglasses Ray Bans

Author:Ross Kemp

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

Ifs Men Sun He Man Equality Rays Boots

Book:Pendennis

Source: Pendennis

“Two angels guide The path of man, both aged and yet young. As angels are, ripening through endless years, On one he leans: some call her Memory, And some Tradition; and her voice is sweet, With deep mysterious accords: the other, Floating above, holds down a lamp with streams A light divine and searching on the earth, Compelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields, Yet clings with loving check, and shines anew, Reflecting all the rays of that bright lamp Our angel Reason holds. We had not walked But for Tradition; we walk evermore To higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp.”

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.”

Suffering Women Grace Rays Sunlight Royal Hearted Needy

Book:Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

Source: Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy

“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.”

Mind Moments Clear Mirrors Dust Meals Breakfast Rays

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“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?”

Ifs Made Eye Sun Lays Appreciation Charm Peculiar Rays Power Of God Godlike

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination.”

Use Light Imagination Reader Glasses Wit Burning Etc Warmth Rays Summary Quickness

Author:Jonathan Swift

“There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.”

Truth Behinds Sun Blind Curious Rays Veils Shields Implications

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Oh, Constellations of the early night That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have seen Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge And sink behind the mountains. I have seen The great Orion, with his jewelled belt, That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd Of shining ones.”

Made Night Stars Grows Behinds Darkness Sky Mountain Died Shining Edges Crowds Warrior Glorious Horizon Rays Twilight Belts Brighter Gloom Constellations Orion

Author:William C. Bryant

“As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.”

Reason Eye Numbers Sun Virtue Ought Envy Wounds Rays Velocity Insignificance

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.”

Wish Despair Destroyed Rays Gloom Ray Of Hope

Book:The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel. (In this Edition the More Objectionable Passages and Pieces are Omitted.).

Source: The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel. (In this Edition the More Objectionable Passages and Pieces are Omitted.).

“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”

“The Book, this Holy Book, on every line, Mark'd with the seal of high divinity, On every leaf bedew'd with drops of love Divine, and with the eternal heraldry And signature of God Almighty stamp'd From first to last; this ray of sacred light, This lamp, from off the everlasting throne, Mercy took down, and in the night of time Stood, casting on the dark her gracious bow; And evermore beseeching men With tears And earnest sighs, to read, believe and live.”

“Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.”

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes and a Life of the Author, by H. Stebbing. To which is Prefixed Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of Milton

“Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields.”

Heaven Morning Sun Fields Ocean Streams Climbs Rays Smooth Deep Ocean

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are around of the Divinity.”

Soul Fate Genius Draws Ministers Divinity Rays Thrones

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing is visible but the merest outline of dusky shapes. Standing within all is clear and defined; every ray of light reveals an army of unspeakable splendors.”