Top 100 The Messenger Quotes
#1. We pray for a messenger from God - who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?
Orson Scott Card
#2. When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.
T.F. Hodge
#3. You will not achieve true devotion in one go. The gihad of the soul, Taha, is the Greater Gihad, as the Messenger of God - God bless him and give him peace - called it." "What should I do, Master?
Alaa Al Aswany
#4. I well believe it, to unwilling ears; None love the messenger who brings bad news
Sophocles
#5. The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders
James M. Kouzes
#6. The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.
Sol Luckman
#7. Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
Ron Fournier
#8. Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.
David Oyelowo
#9. Wherever you go, never forget to be the messenger and cause of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.
Sarah Dessen
#12. I'm God's messenger from the gypsy tent. And it's the message that's important, not the messenger.
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
#13. History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. The Law of the Few, ... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
Malcolm Gladwell
#15. Don't kill the messenger, but I'm think you should change your dating profil to balding.
Paris to William
Gena Showalter
#16. Each ending is the messenger for a new beginning
S.E. Sever
#17. Affirm the body, beautiful and whole,The earth-expression of immortal soul.Affirm the mind, the messenger of the hour,To speed between thee and the source of power.Affirm the spirit, the Eternal I -Of this great trinity no part deny.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#18. In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread. But the content of the message matters too. And the specific quality that a message needs to be successful is the quality of stickiness.
Malcolm Gladwell
#19. We are magnifying the messenger and consequently minimizing the message.
A.W. Tozer
#20. When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,' - I have to tell them that X won't date you unless you're this. I'm just the messenger.
Patti Stanger
#21. Before you shoot the messenger, it helps to get the message first.
Abram Gitspof
#22. The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare people back to work. That's a very popular message. The problem is the messenger.
Dan Quayle
#23. The war is really about religion. The war's between Jesus and Muhammad. The Christians say Jesus is the messenger. Muslims say Muhammad is the messenger. Who gives a expletive who the messenger is did you get the message?
Eddie Griffin
#24. Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.
Ken Starr
#25. Eternity is a lie and Chiron was the messenger.
C.J. Anderson
#26. 'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.
Roma Downey
#27. The messenger comes from that distant place Beside us where we cannot remember How unlikely it is that we are here Keepers of interiors not our own Strangers in whom dawn and twilight are one. Twilight
John O'Donohue
#28. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#29. There are good ways and bad ways to get my attention. Whacking on my ego with a crowbar will get my attention, sure, but it's not going to leave me well disposed to the messenger.
Charles Stross
#30. No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.
Sophocles
#31. There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.
Abhijit Naskar
#32. Always listen to your heart, as it is the messenger of the soul.
Mitch Kynock
#33. Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Two hungry wolves loose among sheep do not cause as much damage as that caused to a man's deen by his greed for money and reputation.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#34. I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
William Shakespeare
#35. The messenger is not as important as the message.
Frank Iero
#36. I do believe in shooting the messenger.
You know why? Because it sends a message.
L.J.Smith
#37. I became the messenger who had to be killed.
Anita Hill
#39. Contagiousness is in larger part a function of the messenger. Stickiness is primarily a property of the message.
Malcolm Gladwell
#40. 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
#41. You know the saying, don't kill the messenger? Hold that thought really, really close to your hearts. (Hermes)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Well," Nicholas said seriously, "I think that all good gifts come ultimately from God. It wouldn't do for the messenger to take credit for his master's work.
Glenn Beck
#43. Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.
Guru Nanak
#44. I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.
Magic Johnson
#45. There is no God but Allah Muhammad (p.b.u.h) is the Messenger of Allah
Irfan
#46. We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
Paloma Picasso
#47. I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a window at which all the senses lean out, anxious and petrified, a gaze that would like to touch the body it is looking at, capture it, take it away and the soul along with it.
Marcel Proust
#49. Cincinnatus was ploughing his four jugera of land upon the Vaticanian Hill, the same that are still known as the Quintian Meadows, when the messenger brought him the dictatorship, finding him, the tradition says, stripped to the work.
Pliny The Elder
#50. Never follow a story with a question, Maisie, not immediately. And remember to acknowledge the storyteller, for in some way even the messenger is affected by the story he brings.
Jacqueline Winspear
#51. A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, "Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.
Benedicta Ward
#53. The following day she didn't expect the messenger who arrived after breakfast, asking for the name of her village. And when she hesitated, he said the Crown Prince wanted to know.
Wanted to know, so he could have it added to his personal map of the continent.
Sarah J. Maas
#54. Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts." (Malachi 3:1)
Val Waldeck
#55. Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#56. Don't kill the messenger," said Lila when the two were gone, "but I think the princess is trying to get into your"-- her gaze trailed Kell up and down-- "good graces.
V.E Schwab
#57. On 'The Messenger,' just imagining playing the part of a soldier in that movie was kind of hard for me. And in 'Rampart,' the idea of playing a cop was even harder. It was hard to imagine myself as a cop.
Woody Harrelson
#58. I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.
Stephen Baldwin
#59. The heavy scent of perfume and the red slashes of lipstick, so strong in the fifties, revolted me. For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message
Patti Smith
#60. 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
#61. Rumour was the messenger
Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale.
Robert Pollok
#63. I'm only the messenger!"
"Now you're the message", Parker told him and shot him.
Richard Stark
#64. The efficacy of the truths in God's message rather than any virtue in the messenger transforms hearts.
Bryan Chapell
#65. What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
Johann Georg Hamann
#66. Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.
Julian Assange
#67. I am Gabriel, the messenger, the teller of astonishing truths.
Sonya Hartnett
#68. 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
#69. I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. To blame the press is the old thing of blaming the messenger for the message.
Anthony Holden
#70. But at midnight - strange, mystic hour, when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin - then came the messenger.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#71. There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.
Anonymous
#72. The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.
Pat Mitchell
#73. Whether it is preached from good motivation or bad, Word is what "works," not the messenger.
Paul Silway
#74. My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.
Claire Keegan
#75. Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.
Abhijit Naskar
#76. Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Shall I tell you who is unlawful for the Fire - or the one for whom the Fire is unlawful? It is unlawful for everyone who is easy, flexible, modest and uncomplicated.
Muhammad Al-Tirmidhi
#77. Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.
John C. Maxwell
#78. Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.
Joseph Addison
#79. It is not the ambassador, it is not the messenger, but the Lord Himself that saveth His people. The Lord remaineth alone, for no man can be partner with God in forgiving sins; this office belongs solely to Christ, who taketh away the sins of the world.
Ambrose
#80. DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.
Bryan Sykes
#81. Judge not by the form of the messenger, but the form of the message.
Richard Bach
#82. In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news ... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
Alice Stewart
#84. When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.
Orson Scott Card
#85. When the messenger arrives and says 'Don't shoot the messenger,' it's a good idea to be prepared to shoot the messenger, just in case.
Howard Tayler
#86. If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.
And that's when I realize: I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.
Markus Zusak
#87. In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad] taught them that Heaven can be found through a simple smile.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
#88. Sometimes it's more frightening to be the messenger of bad news than it is to simply avoid delivering the message at all.
Laury Falter
#89. If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
Harlan Ellison
#90. After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.
Wallace Stegner
#91. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H.P. Lovecraft
#92. The more she thought about it, the more she realised both sides had lost an important alternate perspective. And maybe that was what she'd been created for.
A girl from both worlds, who'd seen the follies and triumphs of each side.
And her job was to shake things up and do something new.
Shannon Messenger
#93. The essence of all things determines souls
that are fit to send messages for their kinds.
Toba Beta
#94. Across the river, a row of crystal castles glittered in the sunlight in a way that would make Walt Disney want to throw rocks at his Magic Kingdom.
Shannon Messenger
#95. My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.
Lynsey Addario
#96. How many people get this chance?
And of those few, how many actually take it?
Markus Zusak
#97. Fitz yawned, and she patted Mr. Snuggles on the head as she stood to leave. He mumbled something, the words too sleepy to be coherent. But Sophie could've sworn he'd said, Miss you.
Shannon Messenger
#98. Where is Polonius?
HAMLET
In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby.
William Shakespeare
#99. Tell my dad ... that I've been hiding his favorite cape in a closet on the twenty-ninth floor. But don't tell him the door is rigged with gulon gas. Let him find that out on his own.
Shannon Messenger
#100. I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it.
Markus Zusak
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