I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
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!
. . . the emergent capabilities bursting forth from the revolutionary advances in the life sciences are about to make us the principal agent of evolution.
I lost agents and managers because I turned down big movies that were smutty.
The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?
I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.
Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.
My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.
It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film. " It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.