Famous Quotes & Sayings

If at least someone is trying to find jobs for people, then you have ... stability and maybe in the long run you will help the (Palestinian) Authority per se.

The principal has the ultimate authority for a school-sponsored event.

Michael Ignatieff

'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books in 1559, and its author was denounced on the Elizabethan stages of London as the 'Evil Machiavel.' The outrage has not dimmed with time.

Gore Vidal

To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.

We need to move forward, and I think the faster we can have an Iraqi authority in charge of things, the better we can improve the situation,

There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them.

James Carafano

Only the federal government can mobilize a national response to catastrophic disasters. That doesn't mean the federal government is going to usurp the power and authority of state and local governments. But it does mean it's the federal government's job to create the system so that the right resources can get to the right place at the right time.

One of the biggest differences between you and a traditionally published author is that a self-pubbed author is responsible for everything. Not just writing the book - but cover design, editing, producing, distribution, and publicity as well.

Bill Stern

I grew up in South Carolina. There are a lot of things about state government that we're not proud of where we rank. The ports authority is not one of them.

Michael Chertoff

because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor.

Bede Griffiths

I had made a god of my own reason... Even if theoretically I now acknowledged the authority of God and the Church, in practice I was still the ruler and the judge. I was the centre of my own existence, and my isolation from the rest of the world was due to the fact that I had deliberately shut myself up within the barriers of my own will and reason.

Mark Twain

I have been an author for 22 years and an ass for 55

Spencer Abraham

I have authorized these negotiations in response to the physical disruption of offshore oil production and imports in the Gulf Region caused by Hurricane Ivan's destruction,

Andy Roddick

I felt like I needed to (get more aggressive), ... I need to make these guys scared of my forehand, and that's what I tried to do today. I tried to serve with a little bit more authority and ended up hitting my second serves great.

Denis MacShane

I find it hard to believe France does not want to bolster the authority of the United Nations... but the United Nations must solve this problem, not just put it off.

She was putting a lot of pressure on herself in the early games. It all came together (against Pennington). She had good shots. She's gone to goal with authority before, but she was really moving the goalie and shooting where she wanted to shoot.

Bill Cosby

Some authority on parenting once said, ""Hold them very close and then let them go."" This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).

Some of my constituents have told me to not to restrict it to commuter hours, but I suspect the opposition from the authority would be even more intense.

Signs are a symbol of authority. They tell you when to go, what to do. No one really questions them. For an artist, it's totally interesting.

Sherrod Brown

since Congress passed President Bush's trade promotion authority three years ago, we have lost one-sixth of our manufacturing jobs.

Since 1995, Governor Pataki has said he wanted the Port Authority to return to its core mission of transportation,

Marcia Angell

Since 1994, any herbal remedy sold as a dietary supplement -- no matter what their real purpose -- the FDA has no authority over them,

She can really rip the ball with authority to all fields.

Leonard Maltin

She could be dogmatic, of course and Lord help you if you disagreed -- that was the tone of many of her reviews. But she spoke with great authority and great love. She loved movies and that was crystal clear every time you read her.

She does have to look to the authority figures around her and glean what to do,

Since we saw the first Sober worm back in October 2003, its author has tried to improve upon tried-and-tested tricks to dupe computer users into launching infected attachments. This latest worm purports to be a warning from CIA and FBI agents, accusing recipients of visiting illegal websites. Mocking the feds is a sure-fire way of goading the authorities, and you can't help but wonder whether the author is desperate to be caught.

Since I am both the author and the publisher of this book, I must, of course, take full responsibility for the text.

If they remained in our control, we know where they went, ... If they were taken out by the authorities, we don't know.

If they're defying authority in regards to this immigration protest, they're going to be suspended, regardless of their ethnic background.

Paul Meyer

If this lawsuit ends up favorable for Durham County, then that would be interpreted as definite authority through case law.

If this is what takes to get the Port Authority back to the table, we're happy to offer them some new thoughts to get the conversation going.

If we develop our own, it will probably be our dollars. If we turn to the authority, there will be strong support from the state and water management district. So there is some real incentives to look to the authority first.

I have heard of local authorities without a single engineer.