Quotessence
Home / Topics / Agents Quotes

Agents Quotes

Browse 1464 quotes about Agents.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingKnowsWantSaidMenWorldFirstsWayActorsBookWritingNeedsYearsWellsWantedHumansActingSecretShouldFilmGovernmentJobsKindMayFree AgentsHas BeensManagersStatesMadePlayBelieveGivingTryingPersonsShowsEditorsEndsMeanRealRolesDoeFbiGuyPressesActionAuditionsBigsCareersDirectorsEnoughPublishersTwoNamesUsedYoungUseWould BeChange AgentDoneFunnyIdeasSellsCharacterChildrenCountryDifferentFbi AgentsHouseInterestLawyerLooksMightMoralNew YorkPowerfulSchoolStillsStoriesAbleAgeAgencyHollywoodLittlesScriptsSecret AgentThreeWholeFeelsImportantSelfStuffAmericaCertainDealsEstatesGirlHandsMattermore

Agents Quotes

“When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.”

PersonsSoulConsciousnessResponsibilityTreePositionHumilityDutyConsciousResponsibleFruitHumbleAgentsGrassKrishnaDischargeGreat SoulsGreat Responsibility
Author:A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Create image

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”

WayWantDeathHeavenChangeDyingDiedManagementInventionAgentsDeath And DyingGraduationMaking ChangesLife DeathWanting To DieBest JobCommencementDying DeathChange AgentInspirational DeathI Want To DieMotivational JobConnecting The DotsStanford UniversitySuccess MantraLoss Loved One InspirationalNew InventionsGraduation SpeechBeautiful DeathGraduation CommencementMeaningful DeathFacing DeathWanted To DieCrazy InspirationalGraduation CeremonyOld Job
Author:Steve Jobs
Create image

“We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.”

KnowsMenMindBelieveEarthPastWiseSonSourceHolyDaughterAll ThingsIntelligentPreparedGhostAgentsMinistersEntitledRemembranceFaithfulnessDiscretionHoly GhostPast PresentKnowledge Of GodSon And Daughter
Author:Brigham Young
Create image

“I like that Sarah Palin. She looks like the flight attendant who won't give you a second can of Pepsi ... She looks like the nurse who weighs you and then makes you sit alone in your underwear for 20 minutes ... She looks like a real estate agent whose picture you see on the bus stop bench ... She looks like the hygienist who makes you feel guilty about not flossing ... She looks like the relieved mom in a Tide commercial.”

GivingFeelsLooksRealMinutesMomFlightGuiltyAgentsBusNurseTidesEstatesUnderwearBenchesRelievedPalinPepsiBus StopsEstate AgentsFlight AttendantFlossing
Author:David Letterman
Create image

“I arrived at my hut in Beverly Hills just in time to keep real estate men from plotting off and selling my front yard. They will sell you anything or anybody's in the world as long as they can get a first payment... It used to be only Iowa that was out here but now they have three or four adjoining states interested and they are here, too. Real estate agents - you never saw as many in your life; they are as thick as bootleggers.”

MenWorldFirstsLongRealStatesUsedThreeSawsFourFrontsSellsSellingUsed To BeAgentsHillsThickEstatesYardsPaymentIowaHutsBeverly HillsEstate AgentsToo Real
Author:Will Rogers
Create image

“Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care? It's not his money.”

IfsWantGivingDoeCareHoursReturnTaxesHumorousDollarsTechniqueEnormousAgentsSweatMailDocumentsAccountingOverlookedIrsTax ReturnsArmpitsRefundsDoes He Care
Author:Dave Barry
Create image

“I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.”

TwoDifferentLightUsedSpeakCasesMaterialsTheoryProveConnectionsDifficultyExperimentsBeing TrueAgentsChiefsReasonableQuartersElectricGlobesCarbonExaggerationElectric LightBamboo
Author:Thomas A. Edison
Create image

“While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.”

ThinkingWayWellsBookLawCultureIndividualSocialTermTechnologyClearModernElementsMajorsArgumentTreatsVery GoodAgentsConcreteSocial ScienceAutonomousModern CultureScience TechnologyGood Reads
Author:Richard R. Nelson
Create image

“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?”

ThinkingMenDoeMomentsSpiritGivenSinTeachMorningCenturyInformationStudentsSourceDrawingAgentsEveningIntimateMaskAfternoonSovietColleaguesTransmitCountrymenAttributionEpigraphsTranscription
Book:George Steiner: A Reader
Create image

“To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be incorporated into his mission to the world, to be the bearer of God saving purpose for his whole world, to be the sign and the agent and the firstfruit of his blessed kingdom which is for all.”

WorldMeanWholePurposeJesusChristElectionBlessedMissionsWhole WorldKingdomsSavingAgents
Book:The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: SPCK Classic
Create image

“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.”

SocialPracticeIllnessMedicalAgentsPretendingConventionsDisguiseInterventionProhibitionSocial ControlDisobeying
Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
Create image

“The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind. Our mind works largely by metaphor and comparison, not always (or often) by relentless logic. When we are caught in conceptual traps, the best exit is often a change in metaphor not because the new guideline will be truer to nature (for neither the old nor the new metaphor lies "out there" in the woods), but because we need a shift to more fruitful perspectives, and metaphor is often the best agent of conceptual transition.”

NeedsMindFactsLyingViewsPerspectiveLogicMetaphorCaughtWoodsAgentsComparisonTransitionTrapsRelentlessExitGuidelinesSpectacles
Book:Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History
Create image

“What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.”

IfsMenWorldShouldBelievePersonsWholeEarthOrderChanceSecretProduceTasteInstrumentsMiseryIntentionConfusionAgentsPreservesFancyProvidenceComplaintsChances AreTotalityContinuationRegularityBest IntentionsSecret Agent
Book:The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford
Create image

“The perfection of the effect demonstrates the perfection of the cause, for a greater power brings about a more perfect effect. But God is the most perfect agent. Therefore, things created by Him obtain perfection from Him. So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.”

CausesPerfectGreaterEffectsDivineCreaturesPerfectionAgentsDivine PowerGreater Power
Book:On the Truth of the Catholic Faith: God
Create image

“The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very heart of America through its espionage agents and a cunning, defiant, and lawless communist party, which is fanatically dedicated to the Marxist cause of world enslavement and destruction of the foundations of our republic.”

WorldHeartAmericaCausesPartyDestructionFoundationBlindThreatAgentsReachingLatterRepublicCommunistDedicatedCunningEspionageMarxistEnslavementCommunist Party
Author:J. Edgar Hoover
Create image

“The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses -- all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.”

MadeSoulCharacterStageReadyHigherAgentsFeaturesFacultyConceptionDisplayUtterance
Book:Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
Create image

“It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.”

WayMeanTwoImportantActionThreeForceInfluenceSubjectsObjectsPatientRateContraryAgentsPairsCooperationRelativeBrutesBrute Force
Author:Charles Sanders Peirce
Create image