Agents Quotes
940 quotes by 782 authors
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Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the…
— Jacques Ellul
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Some people--Samad for example--will tell you not to trust people who overuse the phrase "at the end of the day"--football managers, estate agents, salesmen of…
— Zadie Smith
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Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours…
— Banksy
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Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when…
— Stanley Milgram
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to…
— H.G. Wells
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Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of…
— Cornel West
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In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best…
— Walter Moers
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The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us,…
— John Piper
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Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --…
— Hannah Arendt
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If you ever put a student at this school in danger again-' 'Oh, I thought you Gallagher Girls were immune to danger.' Despite the hundred…
— Ally Carter
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The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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On a cold, fretful afternoon in early October, 1872, a hansom cab drew up outside the offices of Lockhart and Selby, Shipping Agents, in the…
— Philip Pullman
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You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?' 'No, Dean. It's just…
— James Patterson
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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.
— Charles Taylor
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All those young photographers who are at work in the world, determined upon the capture of actuality, do not know that they are agents of…
— Roland Barthes
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Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the…
— Giacomo Casanova
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The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an…
— Michael Behe
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It's a truth universally acknowledged that an FBI special agent in possession of great skill and talent is likely to engage in trash talk every…
— Julie James
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I’d like to know more about this undercover agent who posed as my daughter’s date. The ubiquitous Tall, Dark, and Smoldering.' Nick put on his…
— Julie James
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From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.…
— Nora Ephron
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