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Quotes About Emissary

Rather than allowing a book's intelligence to speak through our mouths, we replace it with our own intelligence as we talk about it. Rather than acting as emissary for the book, we become guardians of the temple, boasting of its wonders in the very words that slam shut it's doors: Reading matters! Reading matters!
~ Daniel Pennac
emissary from the realm of angels, rapt and consumed by the sublime!
~ Donna Tartt
'Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
~ Susan Vreeland
dans les mythes et les rituels des religions primitives, Girard l'applique au judéo-christianisme, le Christ étant le fameux bouc émissaire d'abord rejeté, puis divinisé, sacrifié par ses congénères puis reconnu comme leur libérateur par bon nombre d'entre eux.
~ Jean-Marie Pelt
have become not just advocates, but emissaries. Being an autism parent today requires not only stamina, curiosity, creativity, patience, resilience, and diplomacy—but the courage to think expansively and to dream accordingly.
~ Ellen Notbohm
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
~ Hazel Scott
It was no longer a little different from itself, no longer an emissary from a world to come.
~ Ben Lerner
Correct," the machine replied. "But thankfully you made the correct choice, and knowingly disengaged from the cycle of warlike escalation with your imaginary enemy. That is why I'm speaking to you now. Once the Test has been passed, the Emissary makes contact with the individual most directly responsible, to inform them that their species has been invited to join the Sodality.
~ Ernest Cline
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
~ Antonio Garcia Martinez
For hours after Andrew had died on his way into life, she felt powerfully that he had come from unreachable realms with knowledge she needed urgently to learn. Yet there he lay, swaddled in her arms, looking entirely at peace and not at all like a failed emissary. His face was closed; she could read nothing in his blank, perfect features except her own loss. She had given birth to death, and she felt its claim on her. She held Andrew until he was cold and his chill entered her body and heart.
~ Kate Maloy
LIFE - Death's Very Emissary
~ Abhysheq Shukla, KARMA
If the Medium can master the pathway beginning with his or her Conscious Mind, leading to the Unconscious Mind and finally from there into the Infinite, then the equal and opposite pathway becomes true. In other words, the Infinite will communicate with the Unconscious Mind, becoming congruent with it, and then the Conscious Mind becomes aware of the contents of the Message from the Infinite (now found in the Unconscious Mind) and can become a Messenger (or Emissary) of the Infinite.
~ Laurence Galian
Harold Macmillan, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, told Ambassador Robert Murphy, a Dulles emissary, that, if Great Britain did not confront Nasser now, "Britain would become another Netherlands.
~ Henry Kissinger
a divine emissary—a term so powerful that to another religious Judaean, it might as well be the same person wearing a different skin. An ambassador with divine implications.
~ Janette Oke
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
~ Margot Kidder