Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

C. S. Lewis

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

Agnes Macphail

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

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 Dickens

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Charles Spurgeon

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

Charles Spurgeon

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Carol Leifer

I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

Carol Shields

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Carol Shields

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Carlos Queiroz

Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on.

Reg Pullen

We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics.

Lauren Brightwell

Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little.

Richard Dormer

When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

Charlotte Bronte

The shadows are as important as the light.

Carlos Moya

It's not easy to play your best for 40 weeks. It happens every year, I don't play well in Rome or Hamburg -- I don't know why -- but then I play well after that.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than with admiration; such a monument of its power, may indeed be stamped with immortality, but like the Coliseum at Rome, we deplore its magnificence because we detest the purposes for which it was designed.

C. Wright Mills

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

William Shakespeare

Take it in what sense thou wilt.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

Juvenal

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal

Everything in Rome has its price.

Benjamin Tucker

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.