Famous Quotes & Sayings

Immanuel Kant

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Henry Louis Gates

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Fred Allen

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

Jena Malone

I tell my agent that I want to read everything.

Ezra Taft Benson

Satan works through human agents.

Jay Feaster

If he and his agent are coming in looking for the maximum amount, which they are certainly entitled to do, it's just not going to happen.

Stephanie Beatriz

I feel like my agents are really amazing and smart.

Mike Williams

I am very happy to be here in Jacksonville. It's great to know that the Jaguars wanted me as a free agent and I have found a home here. I am very familiar with the city and I have friends here. My goals in Jacksonville are to become the dominant offensive tackle that I know I am and in the process help this team win games.

Graeme Souness

I am not in on the conversations with the agents and clubs that we are trying to buy players from, but we need a couple of goal-getters to take the burden off Alan.

David Lambert

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

Gary Johnson

An FBI agent and a Carter County deputy went to the scene, ... As they were driving up they noticed at a pay phone one of the fugitives -- (Charles) Jordan. They immediately arrested him without incident.

Drew had to open his mouth and it ruined everything. Personally, I don't like Drew. The day I'm holding a press conference, my agent is going to be in the back of the room.

equates federal agents with Nazi SS agents exterminating Jews in World War II.

Estate agents have consistently reported increased buyer interest over the last few months, which should help to support the market going forward,

Estate agents are reporting increasing buyer interest and that buyers and sellers are reaching agreement on price more readily,

During the seventh round (of the draft), I spoke to my agent and he told me a few teams were interested. The Giants were the only ones that came at me hard and I felt comfortable going with them. They told me I'd be a tight end or an offensive tackle. It doesn't matter to me (which position I play) as long as I get on the field.

Janet Reno

FBI and ATF agents have been in Littleton providing assistance. We have teams of victims' counselors standing by. We have let the community know that the Departments of Justice and Education will provide whatever resources they may need.

Richard Butler

Biology is a black hole. Biological agents are an area where they have never told us the truth.

Everything you say can give the agent an idea about something.

Chris Spencer

Every day, I woke up and had my bag sitting at the door. All I had to do was grab it when my agent called.

Russell Tovey

Every character I play is straight, which is unique, my agent says, because it's not really been done before that someone who is completely out is able to play straight roles.

As soon as the agent puts your name in for your reservation -- and it's already in the machine -- then the machine will not even spit out a boarding pass,

Michael Young

As soon as it was announced, I told my agent to call Team USA and tell them I wanted to be in the WBC.

Mark Teahen

I stayed up watching last night, to see if it passed. I think it's great for the team. It'll bring in free agents. Other free agents know that Kansas City is a great town but may have held back because of the other facilities.

Martin Jacques

Israel is the agent and surrogate of the United States and as such is treated entirely differently from every other country in the region. How can anyone expect Iran to accept that it is right for Israel to have nuclear weapons while itself being disallowed?

James Gleick

Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I've been working with my agent to try to get something set up. One of the things I think I'm going to start doing is a hockey school for sure because they are big hockey fans up there.

I understand that he was a dedicated and loyal FBI agent who has sacrificed a lot. I also think TWA took its toll on him both emotionally and physically,

The way it was relayed to us through his agent was that he's not a guy that likes coming off the bench. He's a guy who wants to play every day. He didn't have the desire to keep playing if it wasn't an everyday job.

We talked to him, visited with him. We felt good about it. It was positive and we're going to go through these next few weeks and see where we are and talk to him and talk to his agent about some ideas that we may have.

We spend an entire day with agents sharing things we've learned about Internet consumers, and giving them a change to work with each other.

We had talked to his agent about it,

Bob Schmidt

We had a big growth in membership in the past two years and we continue to run training classes for 23 to 30 new agents a month.