#agency

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished. ↗

— James Buchan

#altogether #between #both #cities #distinction

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

— Raymond Chandler

#advertising agency #agency #chess #elaborate #human

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

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. ↗

— Howard Coble

#been #blame #came #coast #coast guard

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either! ↗

— Richard Curtis

#before #business #either #hot #position

Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #christianity #done #founder #ideals

Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players. ↗

— Bob Lilly

#attached #away #because #else #fans

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. ↗

— David O. McKay

#free #free agency #freedom #gift #god-given

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#agency #back #day #first #getting

The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency. ↗

— Gary Miller

#agency #asian #barrels #day #demand