Authority Quote by Bessie Head Download Open image “I write because I have authority from life to do so.” — Bessie Head ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Life Power Writing
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion. — Elizabeth Reyes Copy Share Image
I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share… — Daphne Oz Copy Share Image
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
I write because I actually enjoy writing. It's a plus and a fringe benefit that, you know, I can actually provide for my family… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
“The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps there was no greater crime as yet than all the lies Western civilization had told in… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted or thought… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Love is mutually feeding each other, not one living on another like a ghoul. — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for some time… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people... — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
