Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jodi Picoult

Dead isn’t angels or ghosts. It’s a physical state of breakdown, a change in all those carbon atoms that create the temporary house of a body so that they can return to their most elemental stage.

John Greenleaf Whittier

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

John Greenleaf Whittier

The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing.

Patti Smith

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

Pat Robertson

We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

Martha Beck

Angels come in many shapes and sizes, and most of them are not invisible.

Martha Beck

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Maria Callas

I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!

Maria Callas

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Oswald Chambers

Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

Princess Margaret

I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.

Prem Rawat

Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems. YOU are the angel that can fix your problems.

Mike Patton

Trey Spruance didn't want to tour for ages. And Dean Menta has always been our guitar-roadie during Angel Dust, and I remember him playing fantastically during soundchecks. During each gig, he was watching from the side of the stage, seeing Big Jim play stuff that he could play better.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

Honore de Balzac

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

Honore de Balzac

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Honore de Balzac

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

E. B. White

He also consults with the Los Angeles Unified (School) District, which is a gigantic school district - larger than ours.

John Dryden

He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down.

Thomas Gray

He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.

Barry Sanders

For the entire world, Los Angeles is a city of dreams,

Gregory Maguire

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Kristan Higgins

Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.

Kevin Rose

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

Margaret Atwood

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

Jean Harris

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

P. J. O'Rourke

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven.

Patti LaBelle

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

Mae West

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Mac Miller

Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

Lydia M. Child

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Louis Farrakhan

I am a Warner from God to America and the nations of the Earth by God's Permission. God is destroying America by degrees with The Forces of Nature, which you have no power against! ... The Death Angel is in America as we speak - these natural disasters are going to increase.