Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Plath

Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent.

Swami Vivekananda

We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.

Rumi

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

Rumi

The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

Rumi

As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil.

Rumi

Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

Rumi

Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

Rumi

One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

Rumi

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

Rumi

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Rumi

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

Tom Robbins

Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

Tom Baker

Asking An Angel To Blow Kisses You Way, Hoping To Lighten & Brighten Your Day.

Stephen Crane

Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

Thomas Merton

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Carlyle

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!...

Tony Kushner

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Tony Evans

As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.

Tommy Lasorda

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Shahrukh Khan

I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Shahrukh Khan

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Steven Moffat

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Steven Pressfield

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

Robert Browning

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Robert Browning

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Robbie Williams

And I feel that love is dead, I'm loving angels instead

Robbie Williams

And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me When I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.

Sylvia Browne

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Suzi Quatro

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Joss Whedon

Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.