Messengers Quotes - Page 8

• The word griot...is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society...the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

  Djibril Diop Mambety

  Roles, Visionaries, Filmmaker

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• First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.

  Don DeLillo

  Letting Go, Exercise, Ideas

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Eye, Mind

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• I can't blame anyone for being pessimistic when they look around, after all the blood spilled and energy spent to gain ground for working people in the past, and see it all happening again. I wasn't pointing a finger when I wrote the book, but sometimes the message is there even when you aren't actively trying to be the messenger.

  James Vance

  Book, Past, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.

  Brad Warner

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Gambling, Addiction, Drug

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is God's messenger.

  Saddam Hussein

  Religion Of Islam, Quran, Execution

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• 'What was being on the moon literally like?' [. . .] 'Being on the moon?' His tired gaze inspected the narrow street of cheap jewellery stores, with its office messengers and lottery touts, the off-duty taxi-drivers leaning against their cars. 'It was just like being here.'

  J. G. Ballard

  Tired, Moon, Car

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• There are two kinds of death, the death which is inevitable and common to all beings, and the death which is voluntary and particular to certain ones of them only. It is the second death which is prescribed for us in the words of the Messenger of Allah: "Die before you die." The resurrection is accomplished for him who dies this voluntary death. His affairs return to God and they are but one. He has returned to God and he sees Him through Him. As the Prophet said - on him be Grace and Peace!

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Peace, Two, Grace

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• There is a greater a sense of pride - like when we did Kill the Messenger - and that was probably one of my more fun experiences on a movie set. Having everyone there on the same team, it just feels really great.

  Jeremy Renner

  Fun, Team, Pride

  Source: deadline.com

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• I tend to work best as a one-man Task Force, including even the roles of messenger, coffee maker and office cleaner.

  Wole Soyinka

  Coffee, Men, Office

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.

  E. J. Dionne

  People, Drones, Needs

  "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

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• A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Eye, Wanton

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• August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, August, Actors

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• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  Salman Rushdie

  Views, Islam, Tradition

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• We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.

  Nizar Qabbani

  Prayer, Struggle, Night

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• An eternity of wishing to speak directly to my Creator - I thought in despair - and this is how He finally contacts me? Through AOL Instant Messenger?

  A.M. Jenkins

  Wish, Despair, Speak

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• There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.

  Alan Paton

  Country, Children, Hate

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• O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Angel, Night

  1595 Romeo of Juliet. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.1, l.68-70.

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• the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

  Erica Jong

  Soul, Mind, Body

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 27, 2012

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• Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

  Brian Cox

  Dream, Past, Journey

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Mean, Angel

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• The angels are thoughts of love sent from God. Since God is continuously expressing loving thoughts, there are an infinite number of angels. They are very real messengers, sent by God, to help us feel peace and joy.

  Doreen Virtue

  Real, Angel, Numbers

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• History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Memories, Light

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC.

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• Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Blessed, Heart, Reality

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