#beam

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 a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. ↗

— Robert Southey

#beams #body #bones #city #health

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#being #betray #dead #go #here

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. ↗

— Lord Byron

#away #beam #clouds #evening #life

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. ↗

— John Dryden

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it. ↗

— Kip Winger

#album #already #beam #because #before

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. ↗

— Conrad Hall

#broader #closer #light #source #subject

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#divinity #erased #hand #human #human nature

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. ↗

— Damon Hill

#beamed #been #being #children #drivers

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#being #being famous #captain #could #down