Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Law

The obedience of men is to imitate the obedience of angels, and rational beings on earth are to live unto God, as rational beings in heaven live unto Him.

Saint Augustine

Make friends with angels.

Saint Augustine

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.

Wislawa Szymborska

I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.

Vladimir Guerrero

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.

Walter de La Mare

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.

Walter Benjamin

The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistably propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. The storm is what we call progress.

William Blake

Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on, and smile upon our evening bed!

William Blake

I heard an Angel singing; When the day was springing, Mercy, Pity, Peace; Is the world's release.

William Blake

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

William Blake

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

William Blake

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

William Blake

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

William Blake

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

William Blake

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.

Wendy Wright

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

Walker Percy

For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.

Samuel Richardson

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

Samuel Lover

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Joss Whedon

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

Joss Whedon

Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.

Kevin Hart

I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Ralph Cudworth

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Laurie Anderson

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future