Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustave Flaubert

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

Gustave Flaubert

Farming -- a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.

Gordon Ramsay

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

John Dryden

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

John Buchan

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

John Armstrong

The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

Meg Cabot

Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on...Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.

Jules Verne

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!

Jenny Lewis

If you wanna get to heaven, get out of this world.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Leslie Howard

Terrible lot of nonsense... heaven help me if I ever read the book.

Jupiter Hammon

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Jupiter Hammon

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or for being slaves.

Julia Quinn

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

Juan Rulfo

No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

Leontyne Price

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?

Leonardo da Vinci

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

Muhammad Ali

I was always curious. And I always wondered why I had to die to go to Heaven.

Muhammad Ali

I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven

Marianne Faithfull

I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth.

Miyavi

I'm the one and only. In heaven and on Earth

R. C. Sproul

Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!

R. C. Sproul

Heaven is a place where God will personally wipe away our tears.

Poul Anderson

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Pope Paul VI

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

R. A. Torrey

I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

John Armstrong

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Jodi Picoult

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

Jodi Picoult

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Jodi Picoult

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

Jodi Picoult

When heaven breaks, who fixes it?