Framed Quotes
129 quotes by 119 authors
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I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how…
— Joe Biden
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own,…
— Vanna Bonta
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of…
— Mary Hunter Austin
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Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a…
— Sarah Schulman
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to…
— Studs Terkel
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
— Mark Twain
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My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.
— Michel de Montaigne
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature; not any thing…
— Thomas Browne
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Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim,…
— Frederick Douglass
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And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full…
— Italo Svevo
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced…
— Simon Roberts
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The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run…
— Benjamin Cardozo
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks…
— James Madison
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Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say…
— Jerry Stiller
Who Wrote These Framed Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 129 Framed Quotes, led by these top contributors: