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

• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  

  Jonathan Ive
  • Simplicity
  • Function
  • Products

• My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.

  

  Ewan MacColl
  • Talking
  • Function
  • I Want

• Despite the fact that Rouhani has been a long-time insider in a government that has committed countless human rights violations, and that he himself called for the execution of peaceful activists in 1999, many people inside and outside Iran are optimistic that he might indeed favor greater respect for the rights of the Iranian people.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Stage
  • Comfortable
  • Screw Up

• The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

  

  Tony Scott
  • Scary
  • Dangerous
  • Edges

• 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