Ray Quotes
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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More Ray Quotes
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,And guide my lonely wayTo where yon taper cheers the valeWith hospitable ray.
Oliver Goldsmith— Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 1.
Bacon expresses theological and moral truths in terms of mathematical phraseology. He compares the Trinity to an equilateral triangle, argues that the divine light of grace reaches the good in a direct perpendicular ray, the weak in a refracted ray, and the bad in a reflected ray, and compares the virtues to the rational numbers, and the passions to the irrational, etc.
roger bacon— Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln (1899)
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
thomas gray— St. 14. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
Bacon expresses theological and moral truths in terms of mathematical phraseology. He compares the Trinity to an equilateral triangle, argues that the divine light of grace reaches the good in a direct perpendicular ray, the weak in a refracted ray, and the bad in a reflected ray, and compares the virtues to the rational numbers, and the passions to the irrational, etc.
— Francis Seymour Stevenson, Robert Grosseteste: Bishop of Lincoln (1899)
Sometimes, when on the Alpine rose The golden sunset leaves its ray, So like a gem the flow'ret glows, We thither bend our headlong way; And though we find no treasure there, We bless the rose that shines so fair.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, The Crystal-Hunters.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity, Act II, scene 1
For whatever reasons, ray, call it . . . fate, call it luck, call it karma. I believe everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump.
— Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis Ghostbusters (1984), by "Dr. Peter Venkman".
No, ray. It's time to sit down.
— Who: Pete McVries
— Source: The Long Walk.
The rest to some faint meaning make pretence, But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
john dryden— 1678 MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.19-24.
As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.
henry parry liddon— P. 366. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Poor indeed must thou be, if around theeThou no ray of light and joy canst throw—
harriet winslow sewall— Why thus longing? reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Can you by humble faith look to Jesus and say: "My substitute, my refuge, ray shield; Thou art my rock, my trust; in Thee do I confide? "Then, beloved, to you I have nothing to say, except this: " Never be afraid when you see God's power; for now that you are forgiven and accepted, now that by faith you have fled to Christ for refuge, the power of God need no more terrify you than the shield and sword of the warrior need terrify his wife and child."
charles haddon spurgeon— P. 591. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
william falconer— Canto I, line 104.
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
william falconer— Canto II, line 27.
Vain is the hope by colouring to display The bright effulgence of the noontide ray Or paint the full-orb'd ruler of the skies With pencils dipt in dull terrestrial dyes.
— Mason, Fresnoy's Art of Painting. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
Cast not the clouded gem away, Quench not the dim but living ray, My brother man, Beware! With that deep voice which from the skies Forbade the Patriarch's sacrifice. God's angel, cries, Forbear!
john greenleaf whittier— John Greenleaf Whittier, Human Sacrifice, Part VII.
No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay.
walter scott— Walter Scott, Rokeby, Canto VI, Stanza 21.
With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.
Heinrich Heine— Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, New Spring, No. 7.
O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.
george eliot— George Eliot, Spanish Gypsy (1868), Book I.
The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting ray.
william falconer— William Falconer, The Shipwreck (1762), Canto II, line 27.
Every substantive discussion I have had with ray has been either “lost” or ended up on the cutting room floor.
ray comfort— Peter Nonacs (August 20, 2013), An Interview with Creationist, Filmmaker, and Banana-Enthusiast Ray Comfort
I fought Sugar ray so often, I almost got diabetes.
jake lamotta— Jake [2] (Sourced)
I know exactly what it takes to beat this man, but people say, 'Well, ray, two years of inactivity, you'll be rusty.' No, no. He will eliminate the rust because he is what I want and I am what he wants. And boxing needs that kind of fight.
Sugar Ray Leonard— On his come back fight against Marvin Hagler [[1]]
"Mayweather is as close to Sugar ray Robinson as this generation will see. He doesn't have the single-punch KO power of Robinson, but he's just as sweet."
mayweather, floyd, jr.— New York Daily News [6]
Roecker seems to have been as inspired by Todd Haynes's legendary underground film "Superstar" -- in which he told Karen Carpenter's life story with surprising tenderness using Barbie dolls and a bootlegged soundtrack -- as by the stop-motion animation of ray Harryhausen and the "Frosty the Snowman" cartoon.
john roecker— Ann Hornaday — quoted in Hornaday, Ann (January 27, 2006). "One Forgettable 'Freak' Show". The Washington Post (The Washington Post Company).
Then the big white whale, Clinton . What about someone who is a war criminal, a taker of bribes from foreign dictatorships , almost certainly a rapist (plausibly accused, anyway, by three believable women, of rape), executed a black man (Ricky ray Rector) who was so mentally retarded that he was unable to plead or to understand the charges You're against all that, right? But you're for it when it's someone who you think is a "New Democrat".
christopher hitchens— "Conversations with History: A Dissenting Voice", interview by Harry Kreisler (2002-04-25)
ray? Oh my God.
— Detective Miles
— Source: The X-Files episode "Requiem"
— Note: Character says this when he finds a sheriff's deputy incapacitated in his patrol car, and sees a Bounty Hunter with the deputy's likeness; he is killed off-screen and has his indentity assumed by the Bounty Hunter.
