Framed Quotes
129 quotes by 118 authors
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Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws…
— Bayard Rustin
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There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
— Thomas Browne
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The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed…
— William C. Bryant
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Peace must be framed on so equitable a basis, that the nations would not wish to disturb it . . . so that the confidence…
— David Lloyd George
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That we suffer so much today under whatsoever flag we live is proof positive that constitutions and laws, when framed by the early advocates of…
— Marcus Garvey
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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am just...wondering, where is the glow of yesteryear? I'm wondering where the heroes went. Gosh, I don't know how long ago they left. Heroes…
— Tom McCall
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To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data.…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
— Thomas Hardy
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
— Kamala Harris
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Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
— William Shakespeare
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Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there…
— Jane Smiley
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
— Taylor Swift
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My dad sent Frank Sinatra a dollar bill to autograph, and when it came back, signed, he had it framed: it was always up on…
— Robbie Williams
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Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had…
— Katherine Paterson
Who Wrote These Framed Quotes
118 authors contributed a total of 129 Framed Quotes, led by these top contributors: