Messages Quotes - Page 34

• For through it all--above, beyond it all--
  I know the far-sent message of the years,
  I feel the coming glory of the Light.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Light, Years, Glory

  Edwin Arlington Robinson (1896). “The Torrent: And, The Night Before”

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• On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
  the list so I can milk it.

  Warren Buffett

  Phones, Giving, Way

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• It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.

  Mary Pipher

  Daughter, Strong, Parent

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.258, Penguin

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Book, Christianity, Persons

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• To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Faith, Fear, Our World

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• What will the greatest experiment discover? I have no idea!, maybe nothing!, If we won't check, we will never know. In science there is never a guarantee of success. If you understood this last sentence, then you understood the most important message of this lecture.

  Nathan Seiberg

  Science, Ideas, Important

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• This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Running, Religious

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• Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Negative

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• Why, I wondered, is there such hostility to one faith in this Hindu culture that believes all roads lead to heaven? They should be the most tolerant of all. What is it about the Judeo-Christian message that makes it so offensive? Ironically, the Indians may understand the heart of the gospel - that Christ is King, with all that portends - better than many in the 'Christian' West.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Kings

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• An Associated Press report called the President's antics 'Bible-thumping politics.' Clinton's message was decidedly religious and partisan, as was Governor's Cuomo's remarks as he 'also cited religious themes and maxims.' Why didn't the press, the ACLU, and People for the American Way cry foul?

  Gary DeMar

  Christian, Religious, People

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• The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Self

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, School

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• At one of the largest advertising agencies in America psychologists on the staff are probing sample humans in an attempt to find how to identify, and beam messages to, people of high anxiety, body consciousness, hostility, passiveness, and so on.

  Vance Packard

  America, Agency, People

  Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

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• In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

  Vance Packard

  Past, Marketing, Technique

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• I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.

  Judith Jamison

  Dance, Thinking, White

  womenSports Magazine, September 1975.

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• A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going to heaven and uh, a lot of times Christians get into this argument by saying 'we have the only way to heaven.' And uh, people often ask me what do I think is the way to heaven. I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus' coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Faithful, Ongoing

  Brian D. McLaren (2009). “A Generous Orthodoxy: By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a “generous orthodoxy.””, p.134, Zondervan/Youth Specialties

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• We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus' hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking. The destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 67-70 seems to many people to fulfill much of what we have traditionally understood as hell.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Fire, People

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• The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.

  Mark Udall

  Night, Two, President

  "Senator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.

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• An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Power, Unique, Air

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

  Christina Stead

  Intuition, May, Infallible

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• Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.

  Mark Crispin Miller

  Communication, Thinking, Atmosphere

  Mark Crispin Miller (1988). “Boxed in: The Culture of TV”, p.11, Northwestern University Press

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• This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Pain, Moving

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