Quotes About Agency

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

In all things we trace the irresistible influence of the individual.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the more they are the result of our own capacity to reflect on and assess facts and arguments.

We're 50 per cent of the population so it's appropriate we're reflected everywhere as people who take part in society in a really proactive way - that women aren't just reactive, they're out there doing stuff.

To reform the Secret Service, the agency needs a director from outside the agency who will be immune from that culture and not beholden to entrenched bureaucrats within the agency.

I was fortunate enough to be one of those stories where I was scouted on the street by somebody and actually refused to go to the agency, and was approached on different occasions and finally kind of caved and said, 'OK, I'll try it and see what happens.'

The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription.

OSHA's decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency's expanding conception of its own mission.

The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.

Applying cost-benefit analysis to regulation is no different than what most regulatory agencies do.

What I didn't realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.

I was a 'straight-size' model from 13 to 16, but I was eventually dropped by the agency because my hips were too big.

So I did 'Celebrity Big Brother' and while I was locked in a house with crazy people I came out and Denise had actually gone to my agency and got with my agent. And my agent told me, hes like, 'Yeah, I have Denise Richards. That's so exciting, right?' I go, 'So basically you hired my competition. That's amazing.'

The EPA historically has been an agency where people go to work at the agency and spend their entire career, 30, 40 years at the agency.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

Oneself, indeed, is one's own protector. One does, indeed, [make] one's own destiny.

Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with.

Sometimes when you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

Make your own choices before anyone else makes them for you and way before the house lights are lowered.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

The headsman's axe knows not where it is to fall. It is simply a weapon directed by the hand of another. - Ahzek Ahriman

Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.