Quotes About Proxies

#1. There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Edward Snowden

#2. In dealing with Syria's dictator ... only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

William Safire

#3. However, when you create a model from proxies, it is far simpler for people to game it. This is because proxies are easier to manipulate than the complicated reality they represent.

Cathy O'Neil

#4. Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. Don't use proxies when you give tough feedbacks. Be direct! Rather than saying 'some people don't even know how to pick the right tie'. Pull aside the person who needs your feedback, and tell him/her in his/her face: 'Your tie doesn't match with the event', and offer some options.

Assegid Habtewold

#6. Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Tom Chatfield

#7. Digital books are in some ways hastening the lazy, solipsistic narcissism of our culture. We use our gadgets as proxies for other people and genuine human interaction. And yes, I think that's bad.

Jason Merkoski

#8. It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

Brigit Of Kildare

#9. The horse-shoe nail. Remember the old poem? 'For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of the shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost. For want -

Philip K. Dick

#10. Sometimes we don't choose the memories, but they choose us.

Katie McGarry

#11. Promise me something. Anything. One day let me take pictures of you to show you just how beautiful you are. Let me show you how I see you.

F.L. Jacob

#12. All good virtues and goodness itself will gradually find their true home in the heart in which love dwells, and all other qualities will wither and die

Harold Klemp

#13. God, she was so blonde sometimes.

Toni Anderson

#14. Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

Robert Breault

#15. Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

Vasily Grossman

#16. The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Byron White

#17. When you open up your mouth, everything of God comes out and it commands attention, it commands change. I'm talking about the power that's inside of you.

Ludacris

#18. Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

Patrick Rothfuss

#19. Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

Pat Mitchell

#20. It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

Jack Kingston

#21. I'm a label that wants to sell. I believe in clothes.

Giambattista Valli