Quotes About Agency

We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

We are free till we make choices. After that, the choice controls us and we have no more choice.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

For a few seconds it was a tossup over whether I would laugh (imagine being named Hallelujah) or cry (imagine letting some white woman rename you for her convenience).

If she has a choice between being cherished, pampered princess or being a ball buster and refusing to allow Drake to control her existence, she didn't have to agonize over her decision.

If I am a pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make up my mind for me. Eddis, The Queen of Attolia

I realized I was waiting for his permission to leave

Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.

Because I'm a cat, silly. Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it. That's why Vkandis made us His instruments

Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire.

Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance…A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love.

Of course many white people are comfortable with a rhetoric of race that suggests racism cannot be changed, that all white people are inherently racist simply because they are born and raised in this society. Such misguided thinking socializes white people both to remain ignorant of the way in which white supremacist attitudes are learned and to assume a posture of learned helplessness as though they have no agency - no capacity to resist this thinking.

Speaking becomes both a way to engage in active self-transformation and a rite of passage where one moves from being object to being subject. Only as subjects can we speak. As objects, we remain voiceless—our beings defined and interpreted by others.

Women need to know that they can reject the powerful's definition of their reality… Many poor and exploited women, especially non-white women, would have been unable to develop positive self-concepts if they had not exercised their power to reject the powerful's definition of their reality.

First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.

Remaining a victim of circumstance is a state of being that we choose, a choice that — allows us to blame other people — lets us blame circumstances — permits us to avoid responsibility for our lives — encourages us to feel sorry for ourselves, and — guarantees that we will stay victims. No one has to be a victim!

Do not I know if women have a will They'll do 'gainst all the watches o'the world? (2. 7. 8-9)

We each have to choose something but it is another question how and why we presume to choose for others.