Agents Quotes
940 quotes by 782 authors
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Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home…
— David Sedaris
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If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly…
— Henry David Thoreau
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He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.
— Ian Fleming
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform…
— Thomas Pynchon
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If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond…
— Karl Marx
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I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the…
— Aaron Sorkin
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Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.
— Stephen Fry
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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the…
— Frederic Bastiat
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How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be,…
— Joel Salatin
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian…
— Neil Gaiman
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Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
— Sarah Vowell
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Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
— Eckhart Tolle
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make…
— Glenn Beck
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Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species,…
— Timothy Leary
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Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their…
— Simon R. Green
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