Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Denham

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Leo Tolstoy

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"...

Lady Gaga

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Joseph Heller

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Joseph Campbell

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

Julie Garwood

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

Joseph Priestley

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.

Karl Barth

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

Karl Barth

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Karl Barth

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Joseph Glanvill

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

Joseph Glanvill

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Joseph Glanvill

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Leigh Steinberg

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

Lauren Beukes

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

John D. Voelker

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Lindsay Lohan

I'm an angel compared to some of my friends.

Lilith Saintcrow

It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Ludwig Feuerbach

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

Maimonides

For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge...

Maimonides

All forces that reside in the body are angels.

Maimonides

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Gustave Courbet

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Greg Bear

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

John Lydon

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

John Lancaster Spalding

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

John le Carre

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John le Carre

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John Barth

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Jim Leach

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

George MacDonald

But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.