Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Atwood

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

Kinky Friedman

Whether your destination is heaven or hell, you always have to change planes in Dallas.

Ken Olsen

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

William Williams

Sleep!There is hunting in heaven --Sleep safe till tomorrow.

William Williams

Sleep! There is hunting in heaven -- Sleep safe till tomorrow.

Martin Buber

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

Pierre Corneille

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

Pierre Corneille

It is the gift of heaven and not of reason.

Pierre Corneille

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Philip Schaff

The history of the Church is the rise and progress of the kingdom of heaven upon earth, for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.

Phillips Brooks

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Philip Yancey

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

Nathaniel Hawthorne

If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No fountain so small but that Heaven may be imaged in its bosom.

Mother Teresa

Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word

Mother Teresa

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.'

Terry Pratchett

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

Terry Pratchett

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

Terry Pratchett

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Terence McKenna

The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

Ram Dass

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

Seymour Cray

Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.

Lee Majors

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry

Thomas a Kempis

What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.

Thomas a Kempis

A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular.

Thomas A. Edison

Friendship is the heaven of life.

Sharon Kay Penman

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

Leonard Cohen

Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder

La Monte Young

If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.

Lionel Blue

I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.

Lincoln Steffens

My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.