Messages Quotes - Page 13

• The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Doe, Needs, World

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• The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time, place and manner to sell a product is any that sells the product.

  George Will

  People, Rooms, Advertising

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

  Helen Fielding

  Should Have, Careers, Bombarded By

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• Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

  Billy Graham

  Death, Home, Hands

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Scary, World, Enough

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• To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.

  Roland Barthes

  Passion, Hiding Something, Essence

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• Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal

  John Berger

  Language, Advertising, Proposal

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• Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

  Charles Kennedy

  Communication, Essence, Important

  Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2005.

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• Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Hands, Fishing

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

  John Denver

  Song, Writing, Trying

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• To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?

  Aleister Crowley

  Book, Autumn, Men

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• The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

  Irving Howe

  Philosophy, Looks, Literature

  Irving Howe (1980). “Celebrations and attacks: thirty years of literary and cultural commentary”, Harcourt

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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• It does not always help to analyze and think about problems with your rational mind. Sometimes it is far more effective to turn to your inner self, to ask the universe for help. Simply sit quietly. Take a few deep breaths and focus your awareness within. Ask your wise inner self, either silently or aloud, for guidance or help in understanding the message. As you get a sense of what feels right, act on this feeling.

  Shakti Gawain

  Wise, Thinking, Self

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• So, how to become friends with money? First, you have to forget everything you've ever been told about it. And then you have to put in its place a new message: There's nothing in the universe that isn't God. And God, and the energy which is God, is found in everything, including money. It isn't like God is everywhere except in your billfold. In fact, God is everywhere.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Money, Forget Everything, Firsts

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• Our negative thoughts are valuable messages to us about our deeper fears and negative attitudes. These usually are so basic to our thinking and feeling that we don't realize they are beliefs at all. We assume that they are simply "the way life is." We may be consciously affirming and visualizing prosperity, but if our unconscious belief is that we don't deserve it, then we won't create it. Once we become aware of our core negative beliefs, they begin to heal.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, Distance

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• A student researching into my work has actually traced the newspapers and magazines where I found theses images and has found out that many of them illustrate a collection of gruesome stories, murders and suicides which contrast with the images used. There is a contrast between the message carried by the text and that suppressed by the illustration.

  Gerhard Richter

  Suicide, Art, Illustration

  Gerhard Richter, Sean Rainbird, Tate Gallery (1991). “Gerhard Richter”, Tate Gallery Publication

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Long Ago, Males

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• Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.

  Paul Begala

  Liberal Media, Issues, Looks

  "How Should Sex be Discussed in America's Classrooms?; Should Cameras be Allowed in Blake Trial?". “CNN Crossfire”, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2002.

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• A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

  Carl Sagan

  Moon, Space, Civilization

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• You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.

  Bobby Vee

  Friendship, Mind

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• [G]overnment endorsement . . . of religion . . . sends a message to nonadherents that they are outsiders, not full members of the political community, and an accompanying message to adherents that they are insiders, favored members of the political community.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Community, Political, Church

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• Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

  Jim Kern

  Jobs, Children, Helping

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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