The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I've thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing.
As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
. . . the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.
I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.
I represent all people who are citizens of the Danish nation.
Employees represent an opportunity to inspire not a burden to carry.
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.
When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.
All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.
We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.
I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.
We represent in ourselves organized terror - this must be said very clearly.