Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley

Behind every successful woman(author) is a non-demanding husband content with a fruit-bowl.

Andy Paula

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Voltaire

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

W. E. B. Griffin

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Wilson Mizner

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Walter Jon Williams

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

Clare Short

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do...

The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, Author of So Good They Can't Ignore You

For the believer, the fact that God holds people accountable for what they read in Scripture is reason for rejoicing, for this means we have the privilege of hearing directly from God when we come humbly before His Word. While for the unbeliever this...

Scripture Alone: Exploring the Bible's Accuracy, Authority, and Authenticity

The imaginary child implied by the toys on exhibit in Hong Kong was impossible to reconcile with my actual child. I didn't think I'd like to meet the imaginary child they implied. That child was mad with contradictions. He was a machine-gun-toting, C...

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

The author nicely encapsulates Paul's overarching intent in his letter to Corinth, to impress upon those in the church infatuated with the gifts of the Spirit a greater awestruck awareness of His presence in and among them. The author then illustrate...

The Normal Christian Life

None of the things I have mentioned can make a foolish man wise or a bad book good. But when they are properly used they remind us that the act of reading is an act of confidence, and almost of conspiracy, between one human being and another. That co...

The Meanings of Modern Art

Richard put away the Narnia books, convinced, sadly, that they were an allegory; that an author (whom he had trusted) had been attempting to slip something past him. He had had the same disgust with the Professor Challenger stories, when the bull-nec...

Smoke and Mirrors

In my world," said Posy, "authors write stories, and the characters do whatever the author tells them. It's not like this--the characters don't have minds and lives of their own." "How do you know this?" was Caris' surprising reply. The corner of her...

The Word Changers

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

I guess we're all composed of a lot of mistakes; we just have to figure out how to take our mistakes and make something good out of them.

Chips of Red Paint

I’m not perfect. And I don’t have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it’s okay if I still screw up.

Covet

If you don’t know what your barriers are, it’s impossible to figure out how to tear them down.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

Get done with the damn sibling rivalry and let's get back with the task at hand here so we can figure out what we're going to do.

Darkness Comes This Way

He was the hardest person to figure out I had ever met, which was saying something. I knew girls, after all....

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