Evan Davis Quotes

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

Evan Davis

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• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Opportunity
  • Field
  • Provide

• History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

  

  James A. Leach
  • History
  • Lessons
  • Provide

• Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Perfect
  • Interest
  • Self-Expression

• Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Control
  • Responsibility
  • Democracy

• There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

  

  H. H. Asquith
  • House
  • Parliament
  • Illustration

• Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Happy

• It's great for the community to provide so much for the homeless.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Community
  • Homeless
  • Provide

• When you come to Parliament on your first day, you wonder how you ever got here. After that, you wonder how the other 263 members got here.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Wonder
  • Firsts
  • Here

• You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Canada
  • Parliament
  • Backbone

• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thing
  • Excellence
  • Function

• Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Bread
  • Provide
  • Astronomy

• It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Happiness
  • Accord
  • Professions

• We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Function
  • Intellect

• Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Function

• Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Nature
  • Provide

• The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Means
  • Function
  • Resistance

• The sole function of education... to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Education

• I did an after-school special as my first big thing. It was starring Butterfly McQueen. She was the name. But the real star of it was Robbie Rist, who was that little blond kid who looked like John Denver.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Real
  • School
  • She

• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Value
  • Imagination
  • Stories

• If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

  

  Helen Gurley Brown
  • Sex
  • Trouble
  • Objects

• A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Function
  • Provide
  • Parliament