Emmanuel Quotes

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

You get out of life what you put into it ... simple

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom.

We will succeed, because we are fully committed, because, wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility: Make our planet great again.

In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

Peace may be negotiated by politicians, but it is something written in hearts and minds not on pieces of paper

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

I'd like to be a dog. Dogs are nice. They can sleep any time, they wag their tails and on top of that they can get stroked all the time.

Music is actually where I see heaven.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

France is hypocritical and cowardly. I sometimes think that, having been invaded by the Germans, we'd be run better today.

I had decided that I wanted a dog from an animal shelter. Normally, presidents have purebred dogs, but my is a Labrador-griffon mix. Absolutely adorable.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.