Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Stanley

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Richard K. Morgan

There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.

Richard K. Morgan

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

The (contractor) provider is increasingly having more authority on services they are going to provide.

The fact that the government authorized the release of this imagery I think indicates that the Defense Department decided that the release of this imagery was not going to jeopardize the troops.

George W. Bush

The executive branch shall construe the provisions that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information (from Congress and, of course, the public).

Donald Trump

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

Viktor Yushchenko

We are launching a siege of the authorities.

We're authorized by law to go in and provide food and water, ... Some people are getting a bit liberal with the spray paint, but we need to know if we have to go back in to leave more food.

Amity Shlaes

I think some authors suffer from a need to try to prove that they're clever and educated. I try not to suffer from that. I would rather sacrifice my own narrative in the exercise of writing a biography. So I'm not worried about whether I'm clever.

Amish Tripathi

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

Amish Tripathi

As a writer, it's important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should do your karma as an author the way you want to, and rest is up to God.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it.

Henning Mankell

I decided to become an author when my grandmother taught me to write, when I was six. I can still recall the sensation of being able to turn words into stories. It was a miracle.

Ruth Ozeki

It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

Raymond Queneau

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

Benjamin Rush

Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.

Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it.

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

Tom Daschle

I support the president's authority to make decisions with regard to clemency and pardons. That is a president's right, ... But I must say I am troubled deeply by the lack of remorse, the lack of empathy for the victims on the part of the Puerto Ricans themselves. And based upon that, I intend to vote in favor of the resolution.

Geoff Smith

People are reluctant to change because they see it as a challenge to their authority.

Michael Apted

Peer-to-peer technology has benefits, but it also carries many dangers, the most egregious of which is the potential for widespread and unauthorized piracy. Without the permission of the author of the work, who will be able to tell when personal use ends and piracy begins? It is the fundamental question of what is fair and right for the creators and those who made that creation possible.

Our job is to serve each tribe. We don't supplant their authority; we do not override their authority. We can only exercise the authority they grant us.

Stephen Hadley

Palestinian President Abbas earned the trust of his people when he was elected on a platform of peace this past January. Now the Palestinian Authority must make good on that promise by fighting terrorism.

William Shakespeare

O, what authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself withal!

Terry Hands

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Khalil Greene

I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, ... Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port issues were front and center during our administration.

It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.

Jeff Daly

It is just becoming beyond the reach of working singles and many families with children. ... We're happy to get the big Bed, Beth and Beyond and Sports Authority and Wal-Mart, but where will the people who work there live?

Sue Kelly

I was a chief author of the Truth-in-Regulating Act, which provided a new way for the federal government to review the impact of proposed regulations on small businesses before they take effect.