Quotes of: Authority-figures Keyword

She open her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his figures continued playing with out pause.

Cry Wolf

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

Deadly Little Games

In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

If you haven’t figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous.

Epic Grace: Chronicles of a Recovering Idiot

The Bible said, as Chris quoted one memorable day, there was a time for everything. I figured my time for happiness was just ahead, waiting for me.

Flowers in the Attic

I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.

Flicker

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

The Golden Lily

He'd known, since the moment he figured out who she was, that while Celaena would always pick him, Aelin would not.

Heir of Fire

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

Bono: In Conversation with Michka Assayas

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

The BlueStocking Girl

A blanket could be used to cover up your infidelity. Either use the blanket to hide your cheating ways, or figure out how to fornicate with all your clothes on. 

Blanket

Well, it all started when I figured out that the janitor at my high school was the Angel of Death…

Bad Monkeys

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

Carson Daly

Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

Anne Fortier

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

Daniel Radcliffe

To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.

Eric Alterman

One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens.

Joshua Foer

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

Johnny Ramone

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Doug Henning