Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Self-awareness is a trait that not only makes us human but also paradoxically makes us want to be more than merely human. As I said in my BBC Reith Lectures, “Science tells us we are merely beasts, but we don’t feel like that. We feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, forever craving transcendence

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Victor Hugo

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Victor Hugo

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

Victor Hugo

Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 - he said to this simple little boy, 'Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.'

Giuseppe Mazzini

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Herman Melville

In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

Herman Melville

But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

Herman Melville

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

Henry David Thoreau

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

Henry David Thoreau

Will mankind never learn that policy is not morality,--that it never secures any moral right, but considers merely what is expedient? chooses the available candidate,--who is invariably the devil,--and what right have his constituents to be surprised, because the devil does not behave like an angel of light? What is wanted is men, not of policy, but of probity,--who recognize a higher law than the Constitution, or the decision of the majority.

Henry David Thoreau

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

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.

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.

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.