“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”

Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.

He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.

Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody

The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

May I ask your name, my lady? Or perhaps angels have no names, only beautiful faces.

Me and my friends made a group called 1400 and the number always stuck with me. I always see it everywhere I go. There’s an angel behind the number, it’s an angelic number.

She Smells Like The rare oils of hope and Faith. She is a fragrance and incense that even the angels can sense.

If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.

Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.

Angels fly but you and I get so dirty I’m not sure we are so pure.