America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value -… — John Currin Copy Share Image
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough… — George Soros Copy Share Image
There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority… — Lucy Beckett Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice… — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
People aren't blind. They know - they want to have a country where people who are coming in are known to our… — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
Black girls are punished, many times violently so, for questioning and challenging authority, which is something that is often celebrated and encouraged… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no… — Sheikh Hasina Copy Share Image
The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The journalistic and political classes are very eager to borrow the cultural authority of comedians when it suits them, sending out gala… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Putin operates like a super PAC, taking advantage of opportunities for negative campaigning. The purpose is to show that the U.S. has… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
“I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
