Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Jami Attenberg

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Bart D. Ehrman

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Benjamin Franklin

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

George S. Kaufman

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Gijs de Vries

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.

John Updike

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

Darrell Case

There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.

Joe Konrath

Noah Vosen: All agents have shoot-on-sight authorization.

The Bourne Ultimatum

Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.

James J. Corbett

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature.

Zebulon Pike

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

J. M. Roberts

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

Ben Goldacre

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Galileo Galilei

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Wilhelm Ostwald

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

William Scott

A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

William Greider

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

W.J. Raymond