#rays

me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.” -Will Grayson (pg. 66) ↗

— David Levithan

#romantic

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth

He who labours, prays. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#prays #who

He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#cannot #day #five #god #harmed

My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays. ↗

— Joey Bishop

#doctor #i #once #operation #touched

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. ↗

— Karel Capek

#bright #burning #each #end #flame

Silence is a true friend who never betrays. ↗

— Confucius

#friend #never #silence #true #true friend

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays. ↗

— John Hersey

#before #beta #body #bomb #dealing

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself. ↗

— John Thorn

#body #called #chores #die #dinner

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country. ↗

— Noah Webster

#citizen #country #gives #his #immorality