Melissa Etheridge Quotes

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

Melissa Etheridge

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• I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • Father
  • Perfect
  • Heaven

• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Now

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!

  

  Patricia Sun
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Death

• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Heaven
  • Chinese
  • River

• I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Thought
  • Hell
  • Cynicism

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Politics
  • Hell
  • Vote

• The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Heaven
  • See
  • Electricity

• California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • California
  • Hell

• Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Real
  • Understanding
  • Forever

• Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Care

• I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Heaven
  • Thought
  • Year

• Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Hell

• Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Picture
  • Hell
  • Costs

• Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Heaven
  • Spirit

• Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Earth
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• According to a recent survey, kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less from the tooth fairy. That's right, the economy is so bad that even make-believe people are feeling the pinch.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Believe
  • Kids

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.

  

  William Bratton
  • Reality
  • Leadership
  • Police

• I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Heaven
  • Hell