Framed Quotes

• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

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• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Tongue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.32

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• I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

  Joe Biden

  Hype, Numbers, Support

  "Interview With Colin Powell; Interview With Nabil Sha'ath; Interview With Ehud Olmert". "CNN Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer", January 9, 2005.

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• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

  Mean, Texas, Slave

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• Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Movie, Writing, Long Ago

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• The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

  Thomas Hardy

  Evil, Impossible, Resolution

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.120, e-artnow

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• Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Smile, Running, Children

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• Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Strange, Fellows

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 50

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• What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.277, Penguin

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• I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

  Kathleen Turner

  Movie, Way, Explanation

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• It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than big, personal or particular rather than socially significant.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Gay, Color, Literature

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

  Ken Blanchard

  Wall, Real, Vision

  Ken Blanchard, Jesse Stoner (2011). “Full Steam Ahead!: Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life”, p.122, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Space

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.63, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Women, Views, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.6835, Delphi Classics

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• No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced in any way.

  Simon Roberts

  Photography, Agonizing, Way

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• All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to someone else, whether they pay for it or not. The wonder of it is that we cannot get the production of these gifts stopped. Art is life seeking itself. It is our intractable expressions of love for the beauties, ideas and epiphanies we regularly find. I framed the painting. It's now hanging in our den. "I have walked this earth for 30 years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Art, Years

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• Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Song: Black And White World, Album: Get Happy!!, 1980

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• Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Interesting, Doe, Pages

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

  Vernon Lee

  Personality, Letters, Alibis

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed.

  Julia Stiles

  Mom, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.

  Horace Walpole

  Summer, August, England

  Letter to Cole, 28 May 1774, in 'Letters'

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• And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.

  Italo Svevo

  Fear, Museums, Light

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• Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Giving, Needs

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.536, Chicago Review Press

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• If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Opportunity, Light

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• For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number of experiments casually made, without any expectation of what follow'd; and was only reduced into an art or system, by collecting and comparing the effects of such unpremeditated experiments, and observing the uniform tendency thereof. So far, then, as a number of experimenters agree to establish any undoubted truth; so far they may be consider'd as constituting the theory of chemistry.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Art, Science, Numbers

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