Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

George R. R. Martin

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

Garth Stein

...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

Gail Parent

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

Fernando Pessoa

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

Felix Mendelssohn

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

Federico Garcia Lorca

There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.

Ezra Taft Benson

God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us -- friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.

Ezra Taft Benson

This nation was established by the God of heaven as a citadel of liberty. A Constitution guaranteeing those liberties was designed under the superintending influence of heaven.

Francis of Assisi

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

Francis Beaumont

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

Francis Beaumont

As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.

Francis Atterbury

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Jeff Goldblum

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

Jean Rhys

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

Jhonen Vasquez

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

Girolamo Savonarola

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Giovanni Boccaccio

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Gerald Durrell

If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.

Homer

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow.

Hosea Ballou

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?

Horace

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Horace

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

Horace

Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried. [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Friedrich Nietzsche

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

Franz Kafka

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

Erich Maria Remarque

Heaven Has No Favorites

John Milton

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven

Clinton Portis

Southeast Jerome in Heaven. I'm here in heaven with all my friends.