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Quotes About Angel

I'd been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.
~ Mitch Kapor
State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.
~ Jay Samit
Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.
~ Jerry Spinelli
I thought of the stone angel. I pictured the snow falling over it, two classes of snow rising on the top of its wings. So silent, the both of them, the angel and the snow. I pretended I was the stone angel. I close my eyes and pretended as hard as I could, and after a while I was convinced I could feel wings sprouting from my shoulders. I wanted to look, to see my wings, but I was an angel stone, so I could not move.
~ Jerry Spinelli
Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
~ Rebecca McKinsey
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
~ Unknown
She's as sweet as tupelo honey, She's an angel of the first degree. - Tupelo Honey
~ Van Morrison
Leave it to the Russians to have an angel gulag.
~ Unknown
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms. "I'm not fallen," he said roughly. "Then what are you?" He shrugged. "Busted.
~ Unknown
He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter
La inspiración del cansancio dice menos lo que hay que hacer que lo que hay que dejar. Cansancio: el ángel que toca los dedos del único rey que sueña mientras los otros reyes siguen durmiendo sin soñar. Cansancio sano; él solo, el descanso. (p. 79)
~ Peter Handke
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel's flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
~ Peter Kreeft
angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.
~ Peter Kreeft
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
~ Philip K. Dick
A MAN IS AN angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they—all of them—had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man.
~ Philip K. Dick
St. Augustine had said, "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel.
~ Philip Pullman
it must have been the case that there had been an angel among the hostages, that he'd struck down the leader as punishment for shooting the farmer, and then vanished, probably flown back to heaven." "No doubt." "Or to Calvi's.
~ Philip Pullman
there is an angel called Metatron.
~ Philip Pullman
One mornin' soon, now, de angel wid de sword is gointuh stop by here.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.
~ Dick Van Dyke
Para ser traducida por la voz, así como para ser comprendida, la poesía exige una religiosa atención. Ha de crearse entre el lector y el auditorio una íntima complicidad, sin la cual no se produce la comunicación eléctrica de los sentimientos. Si falta esta comunión de las almas, el poeta se encuentra en la misma situación que un ángel que tratara de entonar un himno celestial en medio de las risas burlonas del infierno.
~ Honore de Balzac
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
~ Horace Mann
The horror of immolating another wakes up the child, the dreaming angel, the slumbering god, and casts him into the hell that most men call their lives. Only a poet is forever a child.
~ Unknown
There is in every person an inward sea, and in that sea there is an island and on that island there is an altar and standing guard before that altar is the 'angel with the flaming sword.' Nothing can get by that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes 'the angel with the flaming sword' to be placed upon your altar unless it be a part of 'the fluid area of your consent.' This is your crucial link with the Eternal.
~ Howard Thurman