Quotes About Agency

I have a great agency! It's definitely team work with my fashion career. The trick is to surround yourself with the best people, those whose opinions you really trust and value.

As an ambassador for the aid agency Cafod and the Anthony Nolan Trust, I need to be sure that my public support for those charities is a help for their work, not a hindrance.

Human beings are with independent will, no locks, no bolt that can set upon the freedom of their mind.

We are free up to the point of choice, then the choice controls the chooser.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

We act of our own free will, and if we find life too much to be borne, then clearly there's no one to blame but ourselves.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

God's will determines all the choices and circumstances of his creatures, so that nothing is up to man's "free will." In fact, because God is completely sovereign, man has no free will:

There was no matter at all before creation. God made everything by agency of the Word.

If the human mind makes decisions based on factors, causes, and influences not chosen by the mind itself, then these decisions are not free.

If she would work he wouldn't have to keep her in the house. She wouldn't be crazy, and she could tell him to go to hell. Did you ever think about that, my brilliant daughter? That maybe she's crazy because she can't tell him to go to hell? When a woman can't tell a man to go to hell, I have noticed, she is often crazy.

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Because we have free will, our tomorrows are never determined until we make them day by day.

And you know bloody well that you mostly cant help them anyway; they've got to do it--or not--themselves.

Doom, or save. That I cannot do. For I have no power beyond that of knowledge, no ability to bend others to my will, no way to stop them doing what they will. There is only me.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

Sometimes I drive, and sometimes I'm driven.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.