Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is…

If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are…

— Pope Boniface VIII

“When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility…

— Joey W. Hill

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

— Marijane Meaker

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that…

— Woodrow Wilson

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

— Daniel H. Wilson

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is…

— Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

— Oscar Wilde

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise…

— C. S. Lewis

Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of authority both…

— Chauncey Depew

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead;…

— Andrew Wommack

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

— Alan Arkin