Quotes About Agency

deny Black women control over critical decisions about their bodies.

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

What appears to be happening is that something is being layered over a certain amount of MLF: it is MLF plus some human agency. And this human agency seems to have decided to 'stick it' to people towards whom the programmers or their company feel angry. This would explain why the searches for black couples or gay couples give you what you want whereas searches for white couples or straight couples are dominated by their opposites.

If we don't truly know what something is programmed to do, chances are it is programming us. Once that happens, we may as well be machines ourselves.

We all choose our own paths, Harry thought. We can't choose them for other people.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

Having no choices, no agency, was a killer, but having too many was equally crippling.

No government agency saw Lee Harvey Oswald as a danger.

Standards of beauty change. If Mona Lisa went into a modeling agency today, they'd say, "Sorry, we don't need a janitor."

A healthy agency does not require relevance to the national agenda so much as the APPEARANCE of relevance to the national agenda," Humphrey explained. "It is perhaps the second-most important tool in ensuring continued funding." "And the most important?" "A friend on the Appropriations committee.

if it was your fault, then you weren't powerless--you weren't at the mercy of stuff just happening." "Your always going to be at thee mercy of stuff just happening, no matter what.

We imagine we are free agents, but possibly do not realize how steadily Fate moves us along the road we think we have chosen.

Some might call my trepidation at the idea of motherhood "selfishness"—I would call it "agency"—but those people are probably either (1) dudes or (2) self-satisfied professional parents, and I'm not sure I care enough about their opinions that I wouldn't just agree with them and shrug my shoulders in shared chagrin.

Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

There's no proof of the Earth's curvature and this fake space agency Nasa use CGI images and every one is different.

I don't want to play a prop in a film.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

There is a reason and a need to have an Environmental Protection Agency.