#sages

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips. ↗

— Origen

#believe #bore #did #good #lips

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#books #films #head #i #like

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#bad #concerned #daughters #i #influence

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#against #battle #bible #faith #fight

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me. ↗

— Ed Balls

#because #come #me #messages #mobile

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament. ↗

— Paracelsus

#appear #directly #dreams #god #great

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#am #believer #cinema #entertainment #great

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#copying #done #encyclopedia #had #hardest

There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that he was pushing. We were very quiet with each other. But after two years he saw what I was doing and sent messages through other people that, yes, this is good. ↗

— Gelsey Kirkland

#classical #develop #doing #each #good