Every angel is terrifying.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

Isn't it time that, in love, we freed ourselves from the loved one and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the string, collecting itselfto be more than itself as it shoots?

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart.

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Wait a second, " Clary said."I never understand why people say that, " Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

For the record, you are knocking it out of the park with this speech.

one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world