1231 Angel Quotes & Sayings

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. — Millicent Fawcett

I started out as a Democrat. — Gale Norton

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.' — Yoko Ono

Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other. — Karen Kain

Sometimes I wish I wasn't as conscious as I am. It would be so much easier. — River Phoenix

When people tell you're not good enough, don't mind them. — Toni Gonzaga

Anne Lynburn's grave isn't here."
"It sure isn't. What a pity, I was really looking forward to my first experience violating a resting place. — Sarah Rees Brennan

The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These are the ideas that are essential to science fiction. The phenomena change, the basic ideas do not. These ideas are the same philosophical concepts that have intrigued mankind throughout history. — Kate Wilhelm

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side. — George Leigh Mallory

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle. — Alvah Bessie

Many confuse understanding with believing. — Watchman Nee

It was always right in front of me. The fear was there in the extravagant boys of my neighborhood, in their large rings and medallions, their big puffy coats and full-length fur-collared leathers, which was their armor against the world. They would stand on the corner of Gwynn Oak and Liberty, or Cold Spring and Park Heights, or outside Mondawmin Mall, with their hands dipped in Russell sweats, I think back on those boys now and all I see is fear, and all I see is them girding themselves against the ghosts of the bad old days when the Mississippi mob gathered 'round their grandfathers so that the branches of the black body might be torched, then cut away. The fear lived on in their practiced bop, their slouching denim, their big T-shirts, the calculated angle of their baseball caps, a catalog of behaviors and garments enlisted to inspire the belief that these boys were in firm possession of everything they desired. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it. — Bruce Springsteen

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. — Josh Billings

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. — Lord Chesterfield