Framed Quotes

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I don't know how it's going to be framed.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.