I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March. — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
In the end, God is the God of all authorities. He's the highest authority and He loves you and He can totally… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my… — Grace Jones Copy Share Image
“Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.” — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The authority of God is not ... an arbitrary, external authority, demanding blind obedience ... The authority of God is a wooing… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.… — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It… — Brad Steiger Copy Share Image
The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The judge's authority derives entirely from the fact that he is applying the law and not his personal values. That is why… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things you have in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
It's easy to whip up resentment against anything that smacks with authority. Nobody ever organizes over pan handlers. So even if a… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism. — Mark Durie Copy Share Image
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When coronavirus first arrived in the U.K., the libertine instincts of our Woosterish Prime Minister seemed out of place. People wanted the… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image