Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.
I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I’d have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.
I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!
Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are. . . bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure, if not the absolute permanence and equilibrium of both. . . at least a very slow and gradual succession of changes in those conditions. But man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
A missional theology. . . appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture.
Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself.
A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.
You have got to have an agent. Its a business. But I think there is a way to be artful and commercial at the same time.
I'm not a theater rat, so I never got a theatrical agent and did a play. I came really close though.
The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.
I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.
Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
You can change. And you can be an agent of change.
If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.