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Framed Quotes

How something gets framed shapes how it's seen.

This collection of framed quotes explores careful wording, constitutional boundaries, and personal identity shaped by circumstance. See our Dark quotes for related reflections.

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.

Quotes by William H. Seward

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Quotes by Vanna Bonta

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we...

Quotes by Thomas Woods

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

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

Children Quotes

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

Quotes by Thomas Hardy

It was traditional to not actually cash the prizes that Erdos did award while he was alive. People usually framed the cheque instead.

Quotes by Terence Tao

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover...

Quotes by Summer Sanders

No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.

Quotes by Samuel Freeman Miller

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm not writing, the well is just filling up. I'm going to be patient with this.'

Quotes by Rodney Crowell

Constitution Quotes

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Quotes by Nancy Duarte

Money has always been framed as a public good, one that must be stewarded by governments, when in fact, it is a private enterprise like any other which is fueled by personal agendas, regulation, and the quest for geopolitical hegemony.

Quotes by Meltem Demirors

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...

Quotes by Martin Van Buren

When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.

Quotes by Maelle Gavet

My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his...

Quotes by Linda Sue Park

Dad Quotes

No matter the candidate, every detail in a campaign is carefully and strategically framed for our consumption. The devil is in them.

Quotes by Leandra Medine

What good is a wall without framed art? It is like the equivalent of the accessories that you choose to wear to decorate a black dress - precisely the stuff that makes the wall/dress you.

Quotes by Leandra Medine

What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

Quotes by Kamala Harris

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the...

Quotes by Jane Smiley

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 -...

Quotes by James Wolcott

Dark Quotes

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of...

Quotes by Hiram Rhodes Revels

Frequently Asked Questions

What does 'framed' mean in this collection?
It covers several senses, careful phrasing in speech, formal legal or territorial boundaries, and how a person's own identity gets shaped by circumstance.
Is there a quote about careful communication?
Yes, one observes that words chosen and spoken carefully are among the most powerful tools for communicating clearly with others.
Does this topic reference historical governance?
One sample discusses how new states could be formed or organized out of an existing territory, using 'framed' in a formal, structural sense.
Is there a quote about economic discussion?
Yes, one notes that conversations about the economy are often shaped by lessons drawn from past difficult periods, framing present concerns through history.
How does this connect to Constitution quotes?
Since one sample touches on formal territorial and legal structure, our Constitution quotes make a fitting next read.

From economic discussions framed by past hardship to a life pictured as many painted strokes forming one whole, these lines show how framing changes meaning itself. Pair with our Children or Constitution quotes.