#angel

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. ↗

— William Blake

#another #because #devils #expect #god

I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#enthusiasm #i #insincerity #like #los

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#evaluate #everybody #fact #intellectual #italy

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#angel #food #looked #slice

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. ↗

— Maria Callas

#angel #artist #devil #either #i

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#ashamed #evangelicals #evil #islam #leading

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary. ↗

— Daniel McHugh

#epic-fantasy #fantasy #fantasy-fiction #magic #seraphinium

Goodbyes are sad, but they are temporary, because as hellos ends with goodbyes, so will goodbyes start with hellos. ↗

— Melody Manful

#fantasy-fiction #guardian-angels #melody-manful #romance-novels #romance-novels

Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #maryse-lightwood #city-of-fallen-angels

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! ↗

— Samuel Adams

#meaning #meaning of #pervert #plain #strangely