The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. — Vernon Jordan Copy Share Image
Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority. — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. — Larry Burkett Copy Share Image
“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“A leader doesn’t need imposed or structural authority. In fact, it may get in the way, if you’re not careful.” — Alex Harms Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent,… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard… — June Allyson Copy Share Image
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
“Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.” — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.” — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Science will always be the source of authority for those who wish to remove God from their thinking.” — Curtis A. Chamberlain Copy Share Image
