Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

John Ortberg

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Charles Polanyi

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

J. K. Rowling

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

J.R.R. Tolkien

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Dalai Lama

As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.

David Moranis

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

John M. Ford

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

James Hetfield

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.

Tycho Brahe

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

Robert Benchley

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

Edward M. Lerner

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Chris Hayes

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

Helen Andelin

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Galileo Galilei

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

Simone Elkeles

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Thomas Frank

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Avoid jumping into conclusion! This may cause your idea fractured. Authority will not be responsible!

Abhijit Kar Gupta

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Antony Jay

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Andrew Roberts