Representational State Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional. — Charlotte Casiraghi

We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood. — Thomas Gordon

Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly. — Anne Clark

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead. — Sam Altman

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all. — Flann O'Brien

I agree with Kathi Zellweger that sanctions mostly punish the ordinary people who live at the edge of starvation. — Barbara Demick

We struck up a conversation, but took pains to keep to small talk at first. We touched on the most trivial of topics: I asked if he thought the fate of man was unalterable. He thought it was. — Gunter Grass

Always look at the people, not at the mass. A face, not the crowd. Look at the world, not at the ground. Every little detail you see is a victory. — Vic James

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. — Idries Shah

Lest we lay too heavy a criticism against any government administration
local, state, or federal
we are reminded that American government is representational. Political leaders reflect the people who elect them (as well as those who fail in this civic responsibility) as a mirror reflects those who gaze into it. — Ron Brackin

We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that. — Wayne Coyne

In adventure books there weren't awkward pauses or embarrassing social scenes. In morality plays and farces there were rarely serious discussions of racial tension, mob mentality, pogroms, or plague. In scientific books there were no dinnertime revelations of a terrible matter. Life is a strange mix of all these genres... and it doesn't have nearly as neat and happy ending as you often get in books. — Liz Braswell

The most important parts of your life will be marked by pain. — Bryant McGill

Convincing someone to believe something that was inherently unbelievable often meant getting that person to make a quick and easy comparison to something they already knew. — Matthew Reilly

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian McEwan

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body. — Deepak Chopra