“Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel obliged to say 'Just great!'. In both cases, the reply is just a social nicety, but the framework has changed, it's as if it's become a social duty to express happiness.” IfsFeelsYearsSocialCasesChangedDutyYears AgoTwentiesObligedFrameworkNiceties Author:Mark Ravenhill
“This covenant energy holds and mirrors the pact that we have made of self-fulfillment for ourselves in this lifetime, and that covenant energy holds the full reflection of our promise within its framework.” MadeSelfEnergyPromiseReflectionMirrorsLifetimeFulfillmentFrameworkCovenantPactSelf Fulfillment Author:Christine McCormick Day
“In the US the problem has been, for instance, that Nazis have rights of free expression, right? But other kinds of racist speech is not protected. And you have to link the speech to conduct or to a certain kind of threat against minority population. I know that in Europe, this kind of framework doesn't exist in the same way so it's very difficult to make the analogy.” KnowsWayKindHas BeensProblemCertainDifficultRightsExpressionSpeechEuropeThreatPopulationInstanceMinoritiesRacistLinksProtectedNaziFrameworkAnalogiesFree Expression Author:Judith Butler
“The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.” PeopleKnowsTryingMeanEndsMotivationKnow HowMediaAbsolutesOrganizedJustifyNot AfraidToesViciousFrameworkLeftistsEnds Justify The Means Author:Andrew Breitbart
“On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.” ThinkingSometimesFactsHelpfulInterventionFramework Author:Noam Chomsky
“There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.” PeopleDoneWould BeInstitutionsValuableFramework Author:Noam Chomsky
“If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy.” PeopleIfsMadeMatterReasonInterestWealthSpacePayAttentionEnvironmentPolicyRight NowVoteDollarsRationalPay AttentionZeroDestroyingIrrationalGrandchildrenFrameworkOuter SpaceLunacyDestroying The Environment Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.” PeopleWantYearsChildrenSelfHardKidsValuesThreeSuccessfulHard WorkDisciplineSixEmpathyDaughterConcernedOur ChildrenDemocratSelf RespectBeing SuccessfulThree YearsNot AfraidFrameworkHappy PeopleSix Year OldsThree Year Olds Author:Barack Obama
“My mom used to get involved with the Black Panther activities in Los Angeles. For me it was more about how to view my consciousness on these issues with a biblical framework.” UsedBlackViewsConsciousnessIssuesMomInvolvedActivityMy MomLos AngelesBiblicalFrameworkGet InvolvedPanthersBlack Panther Author:Sho Baraka
“Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not be enough" kind of framework of scarcity. Power with is thinking abundantly as opposed to fearfully. Power with is hopefully where we're going - and where we need to go as a species in order to survive.” ThinkingNeedsKindMayEnoughSeemsYoungOrderSpeciesDrivingHopefullyFrameworkScarcity Author:Peter Buffett
“What is clear is that Malcolm X incorporated within the framework of black nationalism a pan-Africanist and internationalist perspective. In doing so, he began to reassess radically earlier positions sexism and patriarchy. He began to break with notions of sexism that he had long held as a member of the Nation of Islam, and began to advance and push forward women leadership in the OAAU.” LongNationsBlackBreakClearPositionPerspectiveMembersIslamNotionNationalismSexismPatriarchyFrameworkWomen LeadershipNation Of IslamBlack Nationalism Author:Manning Marable
“In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.” TwoGivenStreetsGoes OnCallingIntellectualAtheistSensesFramework Author:Richard Dawkins
“We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.” WorldCountryCertainLeaderEconomicCrisisTradeInternationalRelatedRegionsSpokesAsiaFrameworkRestrictionSanctionsPacificWorld TradeInternational TradeEconomic Sanctions Author:Vladimir Putin
“Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.” WorldDoneOpinionEconomyImpossibleCreationSolutionsConcernedTradeCompromiseDevelopingPartnershipFrameworkOrganisationPacificBeing DoneWorld Trade Author:Vladimir Putin
“I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race.” ThinkingWholeLevelsRaceArmsAreasInternationalNormFrameworkCyberArms Race Author:Barack Obama
“There is an international treaty framework for this. It's the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Most countries in the world are members of the treaty.” WorldCountryMembersInternationalNuclearFrameworkTreatiesProliferationProliferation Treaty Author:John Burroughs
“Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.” HappensThings HappenDramaticFrameworkFunny Things Author:Gloria Calderon Kellett
“What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.” SocialStruggleRightsEconomicDependsUniversalDemocraticRelatedDeclarationGovernanceFramework Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let us look at international institutions and trusts. Trusts have a certain roles and unless you define what their roles are, what is it that they control? Are they controlling the day-to-day operations? If you do that, then what is Tata Sons for? What are the operative companies for? Effectively, you need to have clarity on the roles of different players inside a structure. That is the governance framework.” IfsNeedsLooksDifferentCertainCompanyRolesPlayerSonInstitutionsStructureInternationalClarityOperationsDay To DayGovernanceFrameworkTata Author:Cyrus Pallonji Mistry
“It is true that non-governmental organisations working within strong human rights frameworks are now confounded by securitarian forms of logic and power that extend the paternalistic bias of their work in new ways.” WayHumansFormStrongRightsLogicHuman RightsNew WaysBiasFrameworkOrganisation Author:Judith Butler
“We're trying to tell stories. We're a company that's concerned with global change and the effect of global cinema. We're not simply tied to the very limiting framework of U.S. film-making.” TryingStoriesFilmCompanyEffectsConcernedCinemaTiedFramework Author:Danny Glover
“Elections themselves do not necessarily lead to more corporate uncertainty - quite the reverse, stable democracies create a reliable environment. And elections have caused hardly any change in the basic economic framework in the last few decades.” LastsDemocracyEnvironmentEconomicElectionDecadesCorporateUncertaintyStableReverseFramework Author:Nicholas Bloom
“The international human rights framework is a vital component and engine for promoting global values. Governments have signed up to this international legal framework and we should hold them accountable, in all circumstances from environmental or labour standards, to trade talks, arms control and security issues as well as other international legal codes.” ShouldHumansWellsGovernmentValuesIssuesRightsSecurityArmsCircumstancesStandardsTradeEnvironmentalInternationalHuman RightsCodeLabourEnginesComponentsPromotingFramework Author:Mary Robinson
“From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given more importance. I am pleased that the courts in the United States are beginning to review what has happened to those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Similarly in Iraq we need to bring our strategies back within the framework of international norms and law.” NeedsShouldStatesLawGivenUnitedUnited StatesHappenedStandardsImportanceCourtStrategyInternationalIraqReviewsNormFrameworkInternational LawGuantanamoGuantanamo Bay Author:Mary Robinson
“What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.” PeopleWayNeedsRealityDealsIdeologyAccurateFrameworkConceptual Framework Author:Alan Greenspan
“Having a place to live is a fundamental right and the state must establish a framework that ensures that apartments are affordable.” StatesFundamentalsApartmentFrameworkAffordablePlaces To Live Author:Martin Schulz
“What was the worst thing [making Twiligh]? Playing the part where you can't get hurt and you can't die because there's no framework. There are too many possibilities if you can't die. If you're playing a normal human being, there's always that.” IfsHumansDiesHurtHuman BeingsWorstPossibilityNormalWorst ThingsFrameworkBeing There Author:Robert Pattinson
“I realized how little I knew about my own country. I had grown up in the suburbs and, after college, I moved out of the country, so I didn't really know the place well. When I started following soldiers and their families back home, it provoked a lot of the questions about who we are as a nation, questions I realized couldn't be explored through the more limited framework of looking at the military at war and at home.” KnowsWellsLittlesWarCountryHomeNationsMy OwnMilitaryCollegeMovedSoldierFollowingI RealizedWho We AreFrameworkBack HomeSuburbsProvoked Author:Peter van Agtmael
“Original research starts all inspiration. Get inside the head of the consumer. Understand their needs, hopes and dreams. Deliver to their expectation. Have your team do the work. They will then have the framework for the solution. If they believe and they understand, the results will be their results.” IfsNeedsBelieveDreamInspirationResultsTeamSolutionsResearchExpectationsOriginalsConsumersFrameworkHopes And Dreams Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth.” PeopleIfsLongWould BeJobsAmericaUsedGrowthTermEconomicEuropeFoundationLaysChinaBe GoodUsed To BeBridgesLong TermAirportsInfrastructureFrameworkShort TermBack To WorkJob Growth Author:Barack Obama
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” InspirationalMotivationalTeacherAchievementExpectationsEducationalAccomplishmentWrestlingFrameworkAim HighGreat AchievementHigh ExpectationsInspirational AchievementGreat AccomplishmentMotivational AchievementPersonal AchievementIndividual Achievement Author:Charles Kettering
“In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain - if you win, someone has to lose.” IfsWinningLosesViolenceGainsCompetitionTraditionalZeroFrameworkCompetitiveness Author:Shinobu Yaguchi
“Trump conducts meetings and actually tries to get something done rather than just have the meeting and rather than just announce a framework and rather than just touch on bullet points or outline points and to speak in large terms about what our four-year objectives are. My guess is that Trump gets in there, rolls up the sleeves, and starts talking about actual work that's going to be done, things that he wants to do, things he believes the American people elected him to do. And I think it probably is a stark contrast for people who basically work in a bureaucracy.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingYearsBelieveDoneSpeakTermTalkingFourTrumpMeetingsObjectivesFour YearsContrastBulletsBureaucracyFrameworkSleevesOutlinesStarks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.” KnowsPastFacesFormStruggleIssuesTasksCapitalistFrameworkPast ExperiencesBack Burner Author:Michael Yates
“I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required for graduation. It was a good, sound, thorough, but completely biased evaluation of the Bible, and I was delighted with it, because it helped to document my doubts; it gave me a framework within which I could be critical.My independent study continued for 20 years after this. So I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view.” KnowsYearsWellsTwoSoundViewsClassStudyDoubtMiddleCollegeIndependentInstitutionsCriticalPoint Of ViewMiddle ClassTwo YearsDocumentsFrameworkDelightedProtestantsThoroughBible StudyBrethrenBiasedEvaluationOff To College Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity. That means that you look for something, you have a certain plan, and then you find something else, different, that may nevertheless be useful.” LooksMayMeanDifferentCertainChancePlansResearchDiscoveryExperimentsOutcomesChemicalsNeverthelessFrameworkSystematicSerendipityLsdPharmaceutical Author:Albert Hofmann
“Having total freedom to direct my own movies is more difficult than those I was hired for, where the framework has been already furnished. Unlike with my own work, I don't have to deny or feel embarrassed at the straightforwardness or orthodoxy of the directorial style, because I can say in excuse, "This is how I was asked to direct by those people."” PeopleFeelsHas BeensI CanDifficultMy OwnStyleDirectExcuseDenyEmbarrassedFrameworkOrthodoxyBecause I Can Author:Takeshi Kitano
“The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.” WorldLifeOrderSoundPrinciplesTestsLifestyleFrameworkUpside DownWorld OrderEccentricityTopsy Turvy Author:Karl Kraus
“I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.” IfsWritingStillsBookIdeasCharacterEnjoyToo MuchNarrativePlotFrameworkOrganisedThoughts And Ideas Author:Iain Banks
“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.” TechnologyMediaFrameworkNew Technology Author:Marshall McLuhan
“I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.” UseFramework Author:Mohammed Morsi
“I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.” FirstsReasonPrinciplesTeachApproachPhysicsFrameworkAnalogies Author:Elon Musk
“I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.” PeopleTryingImportantHelpingActionDecisionJudgingCriticismCriticalStemFrameworkRetaliation Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.” PeopleWritingStuffLettersManageEntityDay To DayEmployedFrameworkPostal Service Author:Susan Orlean
“Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.” Has BeensPoliticalGreeceFrameworkPolitical Systems Author:George Papandreou
“Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.” WritingMindBookIdeasHavensTheoryStuckFrameworkBook Writing Author:Tom Peters
“We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.” WayWellsUsedEffectsEuropeAdvantageUnionsAgencyParliamentFrameworkEuropean UnionCompatible Author:Ibrahim Rugova
“It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.” PeopleSaidReligiousViewsEthicsFramework Author:Salman Rushdie
“The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.” ImportantLyingVoiceAbilityHeardInternetLifetimeArchitectureTechnologicalFrameworkAdvancementTechnological Advancement Author:Adam Savage
“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena.” SuccessfulTheoryTestsAcceptedMathematicalConsistentDescriptionAccurateQuantumFrameworkQuantum Theory Author:Erwin Schrodinger