Quotes of: Authority Keyword

I define God as ALL. All wisdom, All-wise, All-loving and All-eternal.

The Marble Orchard.. Author Mitch Kynock ISBN 1484942108

A woman hath nine lives like a cat.

The Proverbs of John Heywood. Being the "Proverbes" of That Author Printed 1546

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

Robert Benchley

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Sam Neill

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

Mikhail Bakunin

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Van Wyck Brooks

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

Israelmore Ayivor

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

David A. Bednar

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Tayari Jones

You are not an "author," you are a writer. If your books are still selling like hotcakes ten years after your demise, THEN you're an author.

Life

In practice, the copyright system does a bad job of supporting authors, aside from the most popular ones. Other authors' principal interest is to be better known, so sharing their work benefits them as well as readers.

Richard Stallman

One of the most difficult things when you were trying to navigate the world of books was dealing with all the unreliable authors. They were so unbelievably tricky to keep track of. An author might write a brilliant book, only to follow it up with som...

The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking about a car, then power would be what was under the ...

The Warrior Princess Submissive

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.10 10 One has only to spend a term trying to teach college literature to realize that the quickest way to kill an author's...

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

I am already living, but something is telling me with unchallengeable authority: you are not living properly. The numinous authority of form enjoys the prerogative of being able to tell me 'You must'. It is the authority of a different life in this l...

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