Quotes About Agency

We have a space agency desperately in need of purpose, whose employees and capabilities have been wasted for decades on make-work projects and dead-end PowerPoint pioneering placebos designed to do nothing more than keep the billing high.

As a proud former Secret Service agent, it's tough to stand by and watch the agency struggle.

I had a mother who got involved in grassroot politics when I was growing up. I watched her have agency and become political in a very male-dominated world.

I want - no, I need - to see images of black girls and femmes twerking, slaying and primping, just as much as I need to see Symone Sanders bopping her head and Representative Maxine Waters reclaiming her time.

We cannot let ourselves be infantalized. We cannot let ourselves be stereotyped.

It is important to understand that the WTO, like the United Nations, is a weak international agency which depends upon financing and support from its largest members.

Basically, Pizza Hut just backed out on the ad agency at the last minute. They got fired and we got fired. It was a simple as that. We do stuff like that on and off.

When I started Sosa & Associates, there were only 3 million Latinos in the U.S. and only four Hispanic-specialized marketing agencies.I had one little goal for our small San Antonio-based agency: to be the largest Hispanic-specialized agency in the United States. We planned for our success and achieved our goal.

I got a top-secret security clearance and served in the CIA.

It's not common for a group to make a comeback after the members leave for a different agency.

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk about what I want to talk about.

I also personally think - as do many others - that a shift on consciousness is needed toward one where we understand that we are in a relationship with the earth and all living beings, that we have agency. That life is worth fighting for.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.

Wem die Fähigkeit abhandengekommen ist, selbstbestimmt zu handeln, ist aber nicht meinesgleichen.

The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

We've talked about this," she said matter-of-factly. "I'm on lease. Nobody's purchased me, so therefore no one needs to be 'checking up on me.

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.

Given that people would often choose not to choose, it is hard to see why freedom lovers should compel choice even though people (freely and voluntarily) resist it. If we ask the waiter to select a good bottle of wine to go with our dinner, we will not be happy if he says that we should just choose for ourselves!

It is no answer to say that streams and forests cannot have standing because streams and forests cannot speak. Corporations cannot speak, either; nor can states, estates, infants, incompetents, municipalities, or universities. Lawyers speak for them.

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistance with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.

I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not.