Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

Harriet Martineau

Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

Janae Mitchell

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

John Oliver

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Joyce Carol Oates

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

John Piper

The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail." -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, "Modular Career Design

Jennifer Ritchie Payette

Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.

James Rollins

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

J. C. Ryle

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

Jonathan Swift

The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.

John Updike

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

Danny Danon

If you hear voices, you’re a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you’re an author.

Dani Harper

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Diane Johnson

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Dean Koontz

Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it

Jason Calder

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

Junot Diaz

The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church.

James E. Faust

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

John M. Ford

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

John T. Flynn

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

Jonathan Haidt