Attaining Heaven Quotes & Sayings

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function. — Alberto Manguel

Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand?
Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look outside your window, then raise your hand and position your fingers around the disk of light.
There you go . . . That was easy! — Vera Nazarian

I suppose you mean Camilla?" "Yes, that's the book; such unnatural stuff! An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the first volume once and looked it over, but I soon found it would not do; indeed I guessed what sort of stuff it must be before I saw it: as soon as I heard she had married an emigrant, I was sure I should never be able to get through it." "I have never read it." "You had no loss, I assure you; it is the horridest nonsense you can imagine; there is nothing in the world in it but an old man's playing at see-saw and learning Latin; upon my soul there is not. — Jane Austen

Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want. — Jack Lessenberry

It was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Blessings are just curses that other people envy. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We do not have to die to get to the gates of Heaven. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you. — Joe Jonas

Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e chappe me me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human. — Stephanie Crayencour

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret influence of heaven and if his natal star has not formed him to be a poet. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Your help comes from the Lord God who made heaven, earth and you! Grab your mission; that's your father's assignment for you! No one can stop you from attaining success with the assignment your father gave you to do! — Israelmore Ayivor

A respected health economist said that these plans would cost a trillion dollars more a year. — Hillary Clinton

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie. — Douglas Booth

Never cry for the same person twice. — Manoj Vaz

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! — Constanze Mozart