Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

Suzy Kassem

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

Simone Elkeles

Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.

Thomas Merton

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Carlyle

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!...

Tony Kushner

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Tony Evans

As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.

Tommy Lasorda

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Shahrukh Khan

I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Shahrukh Khan

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Rip Taylor

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.

Rihanna

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

Thomas Traherne

How like an angel came I down!

Thomas Traherne

He knoweth nothing as he ought to know it, who thinketh he knoweth anything without seeing its place and the manner how it relateth to God, angels, and men, and to all the creatures in earth, heaven and hell, time and eternity.

Raymond Moody

Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.

Robert Bridges

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

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.

Victor Hugo

A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

Victor Hugo

O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

Victor Hugo

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Robert Blair

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

Robert Blair

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Rita Dove

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Thomas Paine

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

Rumi

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.