Adolf Galland Quotes, Angel Quotes, Air Quotes

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion. No engine vibrations. No torque and no lashing sound of the propeller. Accompanied by a whistling sound, my jet shot through the air. Later when asked what it felt like, I said, "It felt as though angels were pushing".

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Angel Quotes , Men Quotes

We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Angel Quotes , May Quotes

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

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Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began, Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man. Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we Are beasts in all but white integrity.

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Tags : John Donne Quotes , Integrity Quotes , Angel Quotes

Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Angel Quotes , Night Quotes

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

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Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Angel Quotes

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Angel Quotes , Enthusiasm Quotes

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Life Quotes , Angel Quotes

Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Angel Quotes , Names Quotes

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls **** All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.

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The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Angel Quotes , Ministry Quotes

Women are angels, wooing: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing: That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this-- Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Lying Quotes , Angel Quotes

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Angel Quotes

For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Book Quotes , Angel Quotes

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Angel Quotes , Men Quotes

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Angel Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Angel Quotes , Rocks Quotes

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Angel Quotes , Wings Quotes