The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
I worked in publishing before I became an author, so I knew how a book gets made.
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
I couldn't choose a favourite author, but two contemporary writers who have never disappointed me are Tim Winton and Alice Munro.
Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way
