#messenger

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself. ↗

— Anita Hill

#content #i #idea #itself #looking

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #around #believe #candidate #country

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#celebrating #chosen #darkness #deliver #fear

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#babe #between #earth #house #innocence

You’re going to shoot the messenger?” “Yeah, Dad, if the messenger can’t learn to keep his interfering ass out of my business. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#shoot-the-messenger #business

I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#courage #fear #i-am-the-messenger #inspirational #life

If someone is speaking to you and elevating themselves at the expense of another, consider the source a non-factor; that's keepin' it 'sucka-free'. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#messengers #negative #positive #quotes-to-live-by #death

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#chick #corea #i #jazz #keith

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. ↗

— Washington Irving

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark