Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Charles Spurgeon

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith pulls the black mask from the face of trouble, and discovers the angel beneath.

Chita Rivera

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

Edward Gibbon

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

Denise Levertov

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Chogyam Trungpa

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

Bill Nighy

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

Bertrand Russell

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

Alan Tudyk

That's where I'm comfortable - playing a jackass on the scene, rolling in with my pocket watch and my buffoon hairdo, with my shoes.

Charlie Chaplin

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Cheryl Strayed

Until we as a gender refuse to wear any shoe that would be uncomfortable to walk a mile in, we’re perfectly screwed.

Bill Maher

I feel like I'm wearing orthopedic shoes, because I stand corrected.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Calvin Coolidge

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Pablo Garcia

This was the year to be in Europe, but the tables have now turned, and 2006 will be a different story.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Desmond Tutu

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

Deepak Chopra

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.