Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

The highest duty is to respect authority.

Unless there is a substantial movement by the authority, trains and buses will come to a halt as of midnight tonight.

Unless draconian laws which give authority to Indian forces to catch and kill people without any reason are withdrawn ... peace in the region will remain a distant dream.

George Coleman

We removed it because by the time we got around to doing it, we figured the city of Sandy Springs would be in business. We figured we'd let the governing authority see if they wanted red-light cameras.

We extend a hand for peace, I think now the whole world can watch and see what the Palestinian Authority is instigating in response.

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

We have never, ever used that authority, ever. We have never run out and taken someone's property ever, that's just not the way we do business here.

Whenever you have a concern about a group of kids, you have to get those with authority together to discuss it.

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Colin Channer

We started talking about all the things in readings that don't work. We decided the people planning them don't think of the most important people involved - the author and the audience.

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

Jeff Bezos

We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,

We stand ready to honor the bargain we struck with the sports authority, and we hope and expect that the sports authority will do the same.

We're still a little bit concerned butwe don't have the authority or the information and we're just waiting to see what the people who do have that authority and information tell us to do.

We're seeing an administration that's engaging in a lot of legal hairsplitting to justify behavior that's not authorized by the law.

Anthony Horowitz

A children's author on a soapbox is not a pleasant sight but I have become drawn into issues, slightly unwillingly, relating to young people, literacy and youth justice: just look at the number of young people we have locked up in prison, and the uselessness of it.

James Laughlin

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them.

The government doesn't have the authority to exclude people from the country, invited scholars, simply because it doesn't like what they have to say.

Ashwin Sanghi

An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary.

Arthur Smith

The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.

John Shelby Spong

There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.

Jeff Sessions

Yes, you have some have some complainers in the Congress, but we voted to send our soldiers to this effort. Nobody else authorized you to go; we voted to support it, ... And I would also note that terrorists aren't happy with you either.

Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

Leopold Trepper

At the end of the nineteenth century, he explained, the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian empire had been authorized to change their names.

Dick Cheney

evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority.

The Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority is an important partnership to preserve the Valley's historic, cultural and natural resources.

These people are comfortable with authority from above,

William Collins

Not to say that authors are all such sourpusses, but you meet the author in the best possible way, on the written page. I am at my best there, more patient, more thoughtful.

Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass

It's not clear that the governor has the authority to invoke a line-item veto on a policy area, ... There's going to be some interesting conversations on that.