Quotes about Representation
Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.
— Gloria Steinem
To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
— Maude Royden
Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.
— Sheryl Sandberg
An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God.
— Rob Bell
God specifically created us to be like Him. This is impossible to wrap our minds around, but God created us like Him in some respect and then set us in the midst of this world to represent Him!
— Francis Chan
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
— Leland Ryken
The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.
— Andrew Jackson
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.
— Michael Novak
The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Primarily I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don't have that microphone or who can't rap.
— Jay-Z