"It was strange, how readily authority could be……" — Scott Lynch
"It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery."
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53 Quotes by Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch has 53 quotes on this site.
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A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the…
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Nobody admires anyone else without qualification. If they do they're after an image, not a person.
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Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?
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I think it’s fairly common for writers to be afflicted with two simultaneous yet contradictory delusions, the burning certainty that…
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You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains.
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I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A…
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Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned…
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I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning
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There are only three people in life you can never fool--pawnbrokers, whores, and your mother. Since your mother's dead, I've…
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows…
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Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of…
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My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.
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More Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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