Agents Quotes - Page 38

• Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Agency, Church

  6 Copy quote

• The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, People, Enemy

  "The Family". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. October 1998.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Kingdoms, Cleansing, Ghost

  8 Copy quote

• Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Judging, Soul

  Robert Penn Warren (1996). “All the King's Men”, p.593, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Zero, Doors, Names

  9 Copy quote

• Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Sea, Space

  Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.1, Dial Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything was fine, but Weetzie wanted a baby. “How could you want one?” My Secret Agent Lover Man said. “There are way too many babies. And diseases. And nuclear accidents. And crazy psychos. We cant have a baby,” he said.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Baby, Crazy, Men

  Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Dangerous Angels: Five Weetzie Bat Books”, p.31, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me.

  David Sedaris

  Home, Doors, Office

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Law, Let It Go

  "Civil Disobedience". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

  Ian Fleming

  Secret, Details, Attention

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Character, Trying, Events

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Slow Learner”, p.9, Penguin

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?

  Karl Marx

  Money, Men, Ties

  Karl Marx, Martin Milligan (1974). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844”

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, "You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy, I'm a white piece of paper, you wanna dance with me?" and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Hate, Writing, White

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Mad, Estates, Spectacles

  53 Copy quote

• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Believe, Race, People

  "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

  156 Copy quote

  Show source

• How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for promotion, or call my mother, I will not participate in this unsavory activity.' Wouldn't world history be rewritten if just a few people had actually acted like individual free agents rather than mindless lemmings?

  Joel Salatin

  Mother, Fire, People

  37 Copy quote

• We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Spiritual, Dark, Evil

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.76, CLC Publications

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ducks in St James's Park are so used to being fed bread by secret agents meeting clandestinely that they have developed their own Pavlovian reaction. Put a St James's Park duck in a laboratory cage and show it a picture of two men -- one usually wearing a coat with a fur collar, the other something sombre with a scarf -- and it'll look up expectantly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Two, Ducks

  8 Copy quote

• Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Keys, Evolution, Reason

  25 Copy quote

• Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Country, War, Mean

  "Assassination Vacation". Book by Sarah Vowell, www.npr.org. March 2005.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.

  Boris Pasternak

  Kings, War, Men

  13 Copy quote

• All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

  Glenn Beck

  Destiny, Men, Differences

  "An Inconvenient Book". Book by Glenn Beck, November 20, 2007.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Distance, Eye

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.437

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

  Timothy Leary

  Race, Laughing, Mutants

  "Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles". Book by Philip Norman, p. 365, 1981.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source