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Quotes About Representation

Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Shall I stop him?
~ Percival Everett
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.
~ Peter Brimelow
Henry James in "The Lesson of Balzac" praised his precursor for giving his characters "the long rope," for acting themselves out. That grant of freedom to his created life was for James crucial to Balzac's success in representation of persons in the world. James saw Balzac's creation of character as ultimately motivated by love: "The love, as we call it, the joy in their communicated and exhibited
~ Unknown
Balzac knew intuitively the need for invented persons to represent life for us, with an enhanced sense of the odds and stakes of life. Representation for Balzac always touched on the theatrical, offering life bathed in starker, more revealing light.
~ Unknown
It's thought that this heightened sensitivity to similarities and differences during interleaved practice leads to the encoding of more complex and nuanced representations of the study material—a better understanding of how specimens or types of problems are distinctive and why they call for a different interpretation or solution.
~ Unknown
women are obtaining undergraduate degrees at a far higher rate than men, and women are earning professional and doctorate degrees at a rate greater or nearly equal to that of men, but they are still vastly underrepresented in top leadership positions.
~ Unknown
The "transfer" does not diminish Christ nor make us divine on our own, but it does "link" or "connect" us into the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, for he is the new Adam and the representative new human being through whom we receive new life. Like open-source code and cloud-computing, Jesus Christ is the cloud and the main server to whom we are reconnected by faith and spiritual surrender.
~ Unknown
Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the peopleís representative before God and bring their causes to Him.
~ Exodus 18:19
six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.
~ Exodus 28:10
And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
~ Numbers 1:4
These were the men numbered by Moses and Aaron, with the assistance of the twelve leaders of Israel, each one representing his family.
~ Numbers 1:44
and write Aaronís name on the staff of Levi, because there must be one staff for the head of each tribe.
~ Numbers 17:3
The plan seemed good to me, so I selected twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.
~ Deuteronomy 1:23
With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.
~ Joshua 22:14
Then the trees said to the grapevine, ëCome and reign over us.í
~ Judges 9:12
So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,
~ Ezra 10:16
Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, a descendant of Zerah son of Judah, was the kingís agent in every matter concerning the people.
~ Nehemiah 11:24
As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
~ Jeremiah 40:10
The Son is the radiance of Godís glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
~ Hebrews 1:3
Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
~ Hebrews 5:1