Frame Quotes
609 Frame quotes by 519 unique authors
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Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves…
— Clifford Geertz
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For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general…
— Cesare Beccaria
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We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the…
— Lorenzo Snow
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Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we…
— George Santayana
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All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.
— Charles Spurgeon
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I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve…
— Charles Spurgeon
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To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it…
— John Flavel
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In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting…
— M. Scott Peck
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Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just…
— Jackie Kennedy
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In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it…
— Brian Tracy
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As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
— Abbas Kiarostami
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The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in…
— Roger Deakins
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Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with the messiness of…
— Stephen Shore
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally…
— James F. Cooper
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It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed…
— Cornell Woolrich
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The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
— Jerry Rubin
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Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to…
— Patricia Hill Collins
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There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different…
— Jonathan Carroll
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The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is…
— Brander Matthews
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To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.
— Jennifer Capriati
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So: if you buy the notion that reality consists of the things in your freeze-frame mental image right now, and if you agree that your…
— Brian Greene
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When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone.…
— Christian D. Larson
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Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over…
— Marc Faber
Who Wrote These Frame Quotes
519 authors contributed a total of 609 Frame Quotes, led by these top contributors: