Quotes About Representation

The average American is heard only if wealthy donors happen to be saying the same thing.

They forgot about all of their differences and all of their frustrations, because the ones who had won the game represented all of the people of Philly.

Therefore, both have an equal relationship with God, but each is distinct in how he or she represents Him and lives out their responsibility toward Him.

By turning names into things we create false models of reality. By endowing nations, societies or cultures, with the qualities of internally homogeneous and externally distinctive bounded objects, we create a model of the world as a global pool hall in which the entities spin off each other line so many hard and round billiard balls

allegory (which is an extended metaphor or image),

The places and people in the following stories have been represented accurately to the best of my ability; yet my writing is supposed to be a tale, and as in any historical novel, my own imagination has blended with fact to create poetical reality.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Abraham, Jacob, or even Moses produces a more concrete, direct, and historical impression than the figures of the Homeric world—not because they are better described in terms of sense (the contrary is the case) but because the confused, contradictory multiplicity of events, the psychological and factual cross-purposes, which true history reveals, have not disappeared in the representation but still remain clearly perceptible.

representation. C++ uses the term data member. interaction diagram A diagram that shows the flow of requests between objects. interface The set of all signatures

The inside "expresses" itself by way of the symbol.

Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

Greatness without models? Inconceivable. One could not be the thing itself -- Reality. One must be satisfied with symbols.

opinion, we needed to get our side of the story out.

Speakers are expected to make clear that they are expressing their own views and not those of the Committee as a whole.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character… like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy…The turkey… is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. (Misattributed)

It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

The work is the death mask of its conception.

All purposeful manifestations of life, including their very purposiveness, in the final analysis have their end not in life but in the expression of its nature, in the representation of its significance.

History breaks down in images not into stories.