Angels Quotes
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A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part.... I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.
Beat Streuli
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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
John Milton
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Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
Denis de Rougemont
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The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
Charles Dickens
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Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.
Nancy Farmer
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I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
Norman Reedus
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I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.
Martin Luther
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In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.
Wendy Kaminer
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Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused. But since their wings have got rusted, you know, the angels wanna wear my red shoes.
Elvis Costello
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We trust in plumed procession
For such the angels go
Rank after rank, with even feet/And uniforms of snow.
Emily Dickinson
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She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side.
Emily Dickinson
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Angels in the early morning may be seen the dews among. Stooping, plucking, smiling, flying. Do the buds to them belong?
Emily Dickinson
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A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been in outer space many times,’ bragged the cosmonaut, ‘but I have never seen any angels.’ The brain surgeon stared in amazement, but then he said, ‘And I have operated on many intelligent brains, but I have never seen a single thought.
Jostein Gaarder
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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
John Milton
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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Emily Bronte
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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'Cause we are each other's angels. And we meet when it is time. We keep each other going. And we show each other signs.
Chuck Brodsky