Famous quotes containing the words secret, angels, operating, divisions and/or direct:
“The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“...and the angels waited on him.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 1:13.
Of Jesus during the temptation.
“... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart, is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)
“An inexperienced heraldist resembles a medieval traveler who brings back from the East the faunal fantasies influenced by the domestic bestiary he possessed all along rather than by the results of direct zoological exploration.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)