#messenger

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world. ↗

— Francis Atterbury

#any #believe #discoveries #even #evidence

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#courage #enjoy #i #level #messenger

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#come #covered #dust #fly #him

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

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

Man is a messenger who forgot the message. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#man #message #messenger #who

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#everyone #messenger #particularly #party #political

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

— Henry Rollins

#august #hollow #last #messenger #misery

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#blame #message #messenger #unpleasant

ألم أرَ في منامي كأن سلسلة من فضة خرجت من ظهري لها طرف في السماء و طرف في الأرض، و طرف في المشرق و طرف في المغرب، ثم كأنها شجرة على كل ورقة منها نور، و إذا أهل المشرق و المغرب و كأنهم يتعلقون بها و يحمدونها...فلنسمِ المولود محمداً ↗

— توفيق الحكيم

#light #message #messenger #inspirational