Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

The most insignificant authors have at least this similarity to the Author of the Heavens and the Earth: that after a days work is done, they have a habit of saying to themselves, "And behold, what he made was good.

Something the Fair Authority is trying to do is (to have) things that are ongoing.

Once the sentencing in this case is complete we are going to look at all the evidence federal authorities have obtained and will release. We will use it to evaluate the handling of this investigation and future investigations.

Felix Frankfurter

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

They have made loans. The loans have to be serviced. The broadband authority needs to fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities.

There's billions of dollars of investors' money at stake here, ... The national financial press will be focusing on this. And for the author of the story to be away on holidays when it's released just is wrong.

There is tremendous pressure on India and Pakistan from the international community to resolve the dispute, ... I can tell you with authority that the Kashmir issue is heading towards a resolution.

At its core, the legal question is how to balance parents' basic and comprehensive authority over children and the state's right to interfere.

Mark Pryor

As we consider legislation, we must also be careful to ensure that any new regulatory regime reserves sufficient authority to ensure that competitive dynamics in communications markets are maintained,

Gregory Benford

As we all saw in grade school, once you learn how to read a book, somebody is going to want to write one - that's how authors are made. Once we know how to read our own genetic code, someone is going to want to rewrite that 'text,' tinker with traits - play God, some would say.

Stephen Kinzer

As publishers focus on blockbusters, they steadily lose interest in little-known authors from other countries.

As written, the voters will not have any authority over decisions like those made by past City Councils to shortchange the pension system.

John Roberts

allows the judge to incorporate his or her own personal preferences, cloak them with the authority of precedent -- because they're finding precedent in foreign law -- and use that to determine the meaning of the Constitution.

Mark Regev

(Abbas) goes by the motto of 'one authority, one law, one security service'. But we don't see him putting this motto into use.

James McCann

A lot of different things go into the mix when determining whether or not Roberts is confirmed. The Senate exerts a little more authority when dealing with judges, and the stakes will be higher.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that.

Nick Harkaway

A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.

Also, musicians and authors will go outside of the major industries to speak directly to consumers. That's starting to be a small trend now, but we see that becoming a very major trend within about two years.

Gilles Duceppe

They no longer have the moral authority to govern,

They need six lanes to move traffic now. More lanes would certainly be needed in the future. An authority would help make that happen sooner.

They have a lot of authority to do that already, and the border security problems are exactly the types of crimes that they already have authority to do the wiretapping for.

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

The United States must release detainees it has no authority to hold, provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes, and prosecute those involved in the torture and mistreatment of captives.

Stephen Harper

This government has lost the moral authority to run this country because it has been named in a judicial inquiry on corruption.

Francois Bayrou

This gives a real idea of the toughness of the society we live in, so the authorities should fulfil the undertakings it has made.

Sathya Baba

This day, the Government has no authority to reform the people; and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

This document suggests that Task Force 6-26 was part of a larger, clandestine program that we think may have links with high-ranking officials, because obviously someone high up had the authority to put this program in place.

This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.

James Hansen

This is an authorized biography, and a lot of readers may suspect that that means that it will treat Neil with kid gloves, ... That's not the case. Neil gave me complete freedom of interpretation and analysis. All he wanted to do was have input to make sure my facts were straight.

It really is invaluable to be able to speak with some authority about the services needed.

Flip Saunders

It really helps any time you have it. The coach is the authority figure, and you've got to be able to communicate with players. Over the course of seven months, things are going to happen, and you've got to deal with those situations. The main thing is the players know that I respect them. It's because of that mutual respect that we're able to deal with any kind of situation.