Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly dull-witted." Tessa glared. "If it helps at all, it seemed to be quite a high-class establishment. Nicely furnished, fairly clean..." "Sounds as if you've visited your fair share of brothels," Tessa said, sourly. "Making a study of them?" "More of a hobby," said Will, and smiled like a bad angel.

Cassandra Clare

Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

Cassandra Clare

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

Cassandra Clare

By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?

Izaak Walton

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

Jeaniene Frost

You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you." He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more." I shook my head. Ian was more proud of his depravity than anyone I'd met, but if he helped me pull Bones out from under four bespelled vampires and one demonically-enchanced vamp, I'd shower him with prostitutes and porn while swearing he was an angel.

George Whitefield

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

George Sand

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

George Sand

When they are among us cats are angels

George Sand

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Jim Harrison

Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

Jerry Spinelli

He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.' I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?' 'Inside.' It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.

Jerry Spinelli

Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.

Jerome K. Jerome

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I look at two things while angel investing. Are you solving an important problem? Do you care about the end users.

Gary Busey

I'm an angel in an earth suit.

Fulton J. Sheen

If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God.

Fulton J. Sheen

If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.

Fulton J. Sheen

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Fulton J. Sheen

There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think.

Christopher Dawson

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Germaine Greer

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Francesca Lia Block

Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form...

Fran Drescher

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

All the Utopias will come to pass only when we grow wings and all people are converted into angels.

Jewel

I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels...

Jeannette Walls

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Jeaniene Frost

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.

Chris Isaak

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Jean Cocteau

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.