Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calvin

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

John Calvin

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

John Calvin

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

John Calvin

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

Joan of Arc

What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

Joan of Arc

I die for speaking the language of the angels.

Joan of Arc

The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.

Georg Trakl

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

James Patterson

Time to die. -Evil Angel

James Patterson

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

James Patterson

I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

James Patterson

It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots," I said. "And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same.

James Patterson

Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.

James Patterson

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

James Patterson

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

James Patterson

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

James Patterson

I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with." "So of course you immediately came down.

James Patterson

Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels.

James Patterson

Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever.

James Patterson

Even needing to get to Angel, we couldn’t forget the basic necessity of eating.

James Patterson

In case you guys didn't catch last week's episode, I'm out of the flock," I informed them. "Angel has no allegiance to me. She's wanted me gone for a long time. And in case you didn't catch all the episodes from the past year, Angel is... unbalanced." "Untrustworthy," Fang seconded. "Unpredictable," Jeb added. "Dangerous," Dylan chimed in.

James Patterson

Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating." "Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?

James Marsters

So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.

James Martineau

To Him let us but cleave in all ouv strife; and the Tempte1 will flee; the wilderness will be desolate no more; angels will come and minister unto us; and when we pass from them to the ministry of life, be it to the glory of a transfiguration, the sorrows of a Gethsemane, or the sacrifice of the cross, the tran- quilizing peace of God will never be far from us.

James Madison

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

Joan Didion

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins.

Jim Morrison

The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy

Jim Morrison

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

Jim Morrison

Death Makes Angels of us all.

Jim Morrison

Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws

Emma Lazarus

When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.

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.