Framed Quotes

• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

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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

  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• 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 be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

  Mean, Texas, Slave

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• 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 smiling as they run down the railway track.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Smile, Running, Children

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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 framed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Movie, Writing, Long Ago

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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 it's going to be framed.

  Joe Biden

  Hype, Numbers, Support

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer", January 9, 2005.

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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

  Evil, Impossible, Resolution

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Strange, Fellows

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50

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• 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 trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.277, Penguin

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• I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

  Kathleen Turner

  Movie, Way, Explanation

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• It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Gay, Color, Literature

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

  Ken Blanchard

  Wall, Real, Vision

  Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner (2011). “Full Steam Ahead!: Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life”, p.122, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Space

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Women, Views, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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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 in any way.

  Simon Roberts

  Photography, Agonizing, Way

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Song: Black And White World, Album: Get Happy!!, 1980

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• Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Interesting, Doe, Pages

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

  Vernon Lee

  Personality, Letters, Alibis

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

  Julia Stiles

  Mom, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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 of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.

  James Madison

  Strong, Organization, Government

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.228

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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 of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Age, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.147

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• The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

  James Wolcott

  Party, Reality, Tea

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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, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Apples, Unions, Constitution

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.169, Wildside Press LLC

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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 prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Running, Long, Swim

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.365, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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