Agent
Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
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Agent Quotations
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
Steve Jobs
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David Thoreau
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
Groucho Marx
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
Frank Sinatra
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova
Agent Translations
agent in Danish is agent
agent in Dutch is vertegenwoordiger, dealer, agent
agent in French is agent
agent in German is Agent {m}, Agent {m}, Vertreter {m}
agent in Italian is agente
agent in Latin is procurator
agent in Portuguese is agente
agent in Spanish is represantante, agente
agent in Swedish is agent, ombud
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