Advent Quotes

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

God, Hope, Beautiful

The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town.
Simon Mainwaring

True, Find, Challenge

Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy.
Benjamin Carson

Men, Country, Before

The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes.
James Wolcott

Study, Film, Films

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel

After, Word, Few

Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom.
Eric Alterman

Daily, Made, Sense

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Alex Campbell

Human, Terrible, Strikes

I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
Wilbur Smith

Future, Reality, Country

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
Kevin Smith

Time, Home, Writing

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Sun Myung Moon

May, Difficult, Matter

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.
Sun Myung Moon

True, American, Lord

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
Kamala Harris

Death, Guilty, Crime

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
Dee Hock

Time, May, Evolution

My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
Gunter Grass

Mother, Far, State

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
John Nelson Darby

Before, Though, Salvation

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
Todd Akin

History, Moment, Iraqi

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
George Crumb

Music, War, After

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.
Michael Oxley

Technology, Real, Industry

Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later.
Stuart Rose

Moving, Social, Happens

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.
Edward Felten

Music, Stress, Down

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
James H. Breasted

Life, Time, Knowledge

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.
Robert Rainy

Religion, Serious, Making

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.
Henry Villard

Help, Him, President

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison

Sense, Message, Poem

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.
Robert Powell

Wife, Social, Question

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.
Islom Karimov

Good, Spring, Beginning

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