Agency Quotes
The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.
The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.
The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.
Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.
Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.
Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
That is, while we believe that cost-benefit analysis is an important tool to inform agency decision making, the results of the cost-benefit analysis do not trump existing law
I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.
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.
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.
Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.
Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
I'll bring in outsiders to evaluate state agencies. They can sometimes see what we can't.
You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God's calling in some human agency--using some human instrument.
Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.
The trouble with many copywriters in general agencies are that they don't really think in terms of selling. They have never written direct-response; they have never tasted blood
Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.
To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.
This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
God loves us and believes in us and has done and will do anything he can to help us, but he will not impose on our free agency.
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.
Advertising agencies primary goal is to advertise and sell themselves to the client. Selling the product to the public comes second.
We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.
Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.
Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.
Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.
I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.
Strong as it looks at the outset, State-agency perpetually disappoints every one. Puny as are its first stages, private efforts daily achieve results that astound the world.
Agency used righteously allows light to dispel the darkness and enables us to live with joy and happiness.
After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.
We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.