Haloes Quotes

#1. Where is the soul? ... I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's breath leaves his body, the soul flops out like a chicken's head and flies off into space to find a lodgment where there [are] harps and haloes. Too much for me.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#2. Seraphim, you understand? Not frilly angels with blousy pink wings and haloes like wedding rings. These ones had wheels full of eyes and voices like the noise of the deep.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Look, she said stooping over her breasts, the haloes are darkening already. I summoned up my remaining strength and said, Abort, abort and they'll blush like new.

Samuel Beckett

#5. There are certain rules to be observed when writing about our parents. We can only describe them as transparent figures with golden haloes, smiling down at us from heaven, large flag billowing in the breeze optional, just before the end credits roll.

Jessica Zafra

#6. So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day.

Bettany Hughes

#7. Rejection is good for the soul.

Eva Mendes

#8. Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

Robert Spencer

#9. I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.

Patrick Ewing

#10. My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

Greg Behrendt

#11. My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#12. We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.

Greg Reid

#13. In my mind, Asperger's is a label to describe not the traits Jacob has but rather the ones he lost

Jodi Picoult

#14. The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#15. New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins through eliminating waste, improving efficiency and lowering programming costs.

James Packer

#16. Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Luther Burbank

#17. You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.

Michael Dobbs

#18. It only went to show what he already knew, which was that there were more dangers in life than even the sharpest training could anticipate.

Larry McMurtry

#19. Life, a spirit roused, two souls rejoined, marking it the most significant moment in my life as she became one with me.

A.L. Jackson

#20. No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

Ellen Glasgow