Quotes About Agency

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

It's hard to change a roster around. You've got to hit your draft picks right, you've gotta hit free agency right, and a team's got to fit together.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and it was invented to do exactly that.

It's not about being the biggest or the place with the most pins in a map. We want to be the most influential. We talk about trying to build the most influential agency in the world.

I do like things the way that I like them. But I'm trying not to be - I don't wanna be that way. I'm not a control freak; I wanna protect my agency. It's a weird question as a black woman.

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

Do you wonder, ever," said Ester quietly, "whether our own will alters anything? Or whether we're determined to be as we are by the very working of the world?

You are the writer of your own life.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

We must all act within the choices we are given.

If solidarity is unity of purpose or togetherness, how to span this great divide of inequality, privilege, universal rights, political agency, and even our seeing things completely differently? In constructing this great bridge of international solidarity across the globe, where do we even begin?

I have no choice but to believe in free will" Tomlinson

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

The discovery that some actions are not as freely chosen as we may have thought does not take us to the conclusion that no action is freely chosen. Degrees of freedom imply freedom.

So it is no surprise that we cannot find free will in this isolated movement in a laboratory, if we treat it as an isolated movement.

On the brink of a second world war, the United States was the only global power without a centralized intelligence agency. The gathering of foreign intelligence, what there was of it, was relegated to the diplomats and attachés.

I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.

Women need to be empowered to shape their own livelihoods and become CEOs of their own lives. They must be allowed to take control of important life decisions that are so often decided by others.

That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

I chose to go to CAA. I think me becoming my own man is going to make it easier, honestly.