Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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.

C. S. Lewis

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Charlotte Bronte

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

Charles Caleb Colton

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Charles Dickens

Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.

Charles Dickens

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Charles Dickens

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Charles Spurgeon

The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth.

Charles Spurgeon

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

Charles Spurgeon

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.