Famous Quotes & Sayings

They asked if they could be an angel and go visit grandmaw,

They heard Angel screaming inside the house, when they ran in they saw the dog attacking her, It took several people to get the dog off of her.

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.

Havelock Ellis

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

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.

Frank Miller

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.

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.

Graham Greene

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and . . .

Gil Scott-Heron

Angel dust won't go away. Somefolks who were smoking it were going away.

Gil Scott-Heron

When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that if we went out and said something about angel dust people were going to ask questions about it and we wanted to be sure we had all the information to deal with it when those questions came up. So it's all a question of being as prepared as possible out front, so that if you are going to deal with information it'll be correct. A lot of people won't check it out but some people will.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Once in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us... not the person that we are, But the angel we may be.

Gregory David Roberts

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

Ignatius of Loyola

Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

I am very happy that my dream of playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers was realized. It will be a difficult race in spring training to make the opening-day roster.

I am pleased that when confronted with the overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing, Richard Saint Angel has chosen to withdraw his petition,

Lou Ferrigno

I am proud to be able to do my part as part of the team and to help these brave and dedicated deputy sheriffs in keeping Los Angeles County safe for the people who live, work and visit here.

Jack Valenti

I am proud that the entertainment industry and the citizens of Los Angeles turned out in full force to support a long overdue national memorial to Dr. King.