Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Tolstoy

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"...

Lady Gaga

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Joseph Heller

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Joseph Campbell

Have you ever looked inside one of those things [computers]? It's a whole hierarchy of angels- all on slats. And those little tubes-those are miracles.

Pearl S. Buck

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

Phyllis Bottome

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Puff Daddy

I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I'm an angel.

Maggie Stiefvater

Sam did smile then, and said softly, "Hey Angel.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

Gustave Courbet

I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.

Gustave Courbet

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Greg Bear

Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

John Lydon

Heaven is on this earth. There are no angels on the clouds with twanging harps... That's just another man's fantasy.

John Lancaster Spalding

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.

John le Carre

And the ideologies trailed after these impossible events like condemned prisoners, as ideologies do when they've had their day. Because they have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John le Carre

Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.

John Barth

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

Julie Andrews

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

Judith McNaught

Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

Joseph Glanvill

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Joseph Glanvill

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

Leigh Steinberg

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

Lauren Beukes

World needs more angels, even plywood ones.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.

Julie Garwood

For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.

Joseph Priestley

Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.

Karl Barth

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure.

Karl Barth

God listens to Bach while the angels listen to Mozart.

Karl Barth

It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Ouida

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.

Kanye West

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

Joyce Meyer

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.