Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

Angels, we have grown apart.

David Hogan

Do people want a concrete-lined river like in Los Angeles or a nice river with trees and vegetation? A critical habitat designation means we'd get the nice trees and vegetation.

Albert Pike

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .

Albert Einstein

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Allah, the Exalted, gave the angels intellect without desires, He gave the animals desires without intellect, and He gave both to the sons of Adam. So a man whose intellect prevails over his desires is better than the angels, whilst a man whose desire prevails over his intellect is worse than the animals.

Adolf Galland

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

Alexander MacLaren

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Pablo Neruda

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Mark Strand

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Mary Oliver

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Coco Chanel

One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans.

Deepak Chopra

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

Albert Schweitzer

Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used.

Jerry Saltz

Scandal is only human.

Nico Tortorella

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

Mary McCarthy

We are a nation of 20 million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.

Mikhail Bakunin

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.