Framed Quotes

129 quotes by 119 authors

For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones,… — Elizabeth McCracken
Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children… — Dinah Sheridan
The image of how power shows itself to the public is important... CNN was an inspiration to do the project in color because power confirms… — Carl De Keyzer
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against… — James Madison
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their… — George Friedman
Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and… — Martin Luther
No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can… — Abraham Lincoln
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then… — Henry David Thoreau
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is… — Malala Yousafzai
The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by… — Grover Cleveland
Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for. — H. L. Mencken
What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules… — Iris Murdoch
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never… — William H. Seward
I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen. — Aziz Ansari
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make… — Tom McCall
Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up. — Elvis Costello
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of… — Anthony Giddens

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