Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

If I want to be the sexy Bipasha Basu, then I'll do a song here or a glam role there. But I want to be part of films that are watched, films that earn money and are new age, with author-backed roles.

Bipasha Basu

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon

What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous times over the years that the age of the earth, for example, is not a salvation issue but an authority issue.

Ken Ham

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

The heroine might be unsure. And the reader. But I don’t think the author should be.

All Those Vanished Engines

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

The Alphabets of Success: Passion Driven Life

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Ain't She Sweet

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Invincible

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

Killosophy

... I am not the author of my prayers; when they come, they come from God.

Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

Managing Transitions

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

Leap

The author says that when an angry impulse is not immediately expressed, it turns to melancholy.

Master and Commander

To make a decision, all you need is authority. To make a good decision, you also need knowledge, experience, and insight.

Management Culture

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

This Brilliant Darkness

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Pensées

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

Pour the Oil

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

The Path to Power