Framing Quotes
More Framing Quotes
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification — framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.
Michael Crichton— "Mediasaurus: The decline of conventional media" - Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C. (7 April 1993)
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.
william john macquorn rankine— "Outlines of the Science of Energetics" in Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow (1855), p. 213
It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.
charlotte brontë— Jane (Ch. 23)
People keep framing this as a religious freedom issue, but there's a difference between practicing your religion - which everyone has the right to do - and rubbing your religion in people's faces as a triumphalist political statement, which is what's happening here.
pat condell— YouTube video (August 28, 2010; from YouTube)
A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.
william john macquorn rankine— In "Outlines of the Science of Energetics". In Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1855. p.213
Equity in its general sense is that quality in the transactions of mankind which accords with natural justice, or with honesty and right. . . . But in its juridical sense, that is to say, as administered by the Courts, equity embraces a jurisdiction much less wide than the principles of natural justice:;; for there are many matters of natural justice which the Courts have wholly unprovided for, partly from the difficulty of framing rules to meet them and partly from the doubtful policy of attempting to give a legal sanction to duties of so-called imperfect obligation, such as charity, justice and kindness.
— Snell, Eq. Part I., Ch. 1, p. 1. (The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904))
