Authority Quotes · Page 36

'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.

— Jim Lee

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

— John Prescott

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

When you literally overturn the teaching of Scripture to empower people who want power, you have given up biblical authority.

— John MacArthur

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

— John Charles Polanyi

I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.

— Tate Reeves

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

— Calvin Coolidge

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

— David Foster Wallace

All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as…

— Vincent Bugliosi

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge…

— Timothy Keller

Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he…

— Jack Ramsay

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters…

— Ted Hughes

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and…

— Henry Steele Commager

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such…

— John Locke

I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents…

— Julie Delpy

We’'ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with…

— Mitchell Baker

If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow…

— Edward Abbey

No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate…

— Paulo Freire

Question everyone in authority, and see that you get sensible answers to your questions ... questioning does not mean the end of…

— Winifred Holtby

Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your…

— John Berger

One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority…

— Ted Cruz

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through…

— Ed Crane

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

— Rand Paul

Knowing when to use your authority is an important as knowing how to use it.

— Varsha Sharma

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

— Ronald Reagan

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

— T.F. Hodge

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

— Roy Moore

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

— Zygmunt Bauman

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

— John Dryden

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

— Richard Hooker

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

— B. B. Warfield

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

— Peter Hitchens

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

— Anonymous

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

— Adnan Pachachi

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

— Hugh Prather

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive…

— Ulysses S. Grant