The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.
Leigh Steinberg

There are angels that receive more interiorly the Divine that goes forth from the Lord, and others that receive it less interiorly; the former are called celestial angels, and the latter spiritual angels.
Emanuel Swedenborg

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.
Chuck Zito

They talk like angels but they live like men.
St. Jerome

They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand

This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
Origen

This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
Origen

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Milan Kundera

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
George Whitefield

Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections, their interest, and their resentments, just as humanity is moved to-day.
John Sergeant Wise

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
Lucretius

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.
Thomas Dekker

We are never like angels till our passion dies.
John Denham

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.
Slobodan Milosevic

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Nolan Ryan

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.
Karl Barth