Debray Regis Quotes & Sayings

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice. — Regis Debray

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. — Regis Debray

He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence. — Gary L. Thomas

Walking with God will always bring victory. — Sunday Adelaja

You must be dedicated and diligent to fulfill your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation. — Regis Debray

If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise ... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book. — Albert Goldbarth

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep. — Catherine O'Hara

The evidence of our acceptance in the Beloved rises in proportion to our love, to our repentance, to our humility, to our faith, to our self-denial, to our delight in duty. Other evidence than this the Bible knows not God has not given. — Gardiner Spring

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it. — Simon Fuller

Bravery is the dead man's virtue. — Joe Abercrombie

Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble. — Regis Debray

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition. — Regis Debray

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology. — Regis Debray

People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to. — Jonas Jonasson

Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die. — Regis Debray

The man of the future will be young or he will not be. — Regis Debray

It is not age but experience that brings wisdom. — Jeffrey Fry

God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters. — Regis Debray

The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them. — James Joyce

Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions. — Regis Debray

CGI means, just to be clear, creating any type of image with a computer. Basically, starting off with nothing, or with images and manipulating them. The way we did it, everything was actual photographed images. A lot of that stuff was shot through a microscope of chemical reactions, yeast growing, lots of weird things, by Peter Parks. We put it into a computer and collaged it, manipulated it. Meaning we digitally shaped it to fit with other images. But there was no computer-generated imagery at all. — Darren Aronofsky

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries. — Regis Debray

Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?
Clara: Because I love you. — Cynthia Hand

Ruexner chuckled and put away his knife. Gisela kept her eyes on Valten. Even though her bottom lip trembled, she still looked like the bravest woman he had ever seen. — Melanie Dickerson