Famous Quotes & Sayings

The authorities in Belgrade ... want to avoid this event.

The authorities in Belgrade used every trick in the book to prevent a fair campaign, rig the election and distort the results, ... In so doing, they have fooled no one. Milosevic has been repudiated and claims by his regime to the contrary are laughable.

The authorities have got the ballot boxes ready with the votes inside and they are deciding whether it would look better internationally if Mubarak wins with 75 per cent or 80 per cent of the vote.

Patricia Schroeder

That is really turning it on its head, ... How is an author even supposed to know that his or her work is being copied?

Viktor Yushchenko

That is why the ... (opposition) has decided to pull out of the talks. We are stopping talks with the authorities. We will talk with them only from the position of people power.

take her social cues from those in authority around her.

Chris Collins

It's tragic. My client is very sad that Mr. Bronson left the earth. But I'm disappointed that Colorado authorities didn't look into it further before they decided to drag my client out here.

It's tough to say where Spitzer's authority begins and ends.

David has always been one of those quietly influential staffers that has an impact all of out proportion to their public profile. He knows how to get things done, and when he talks, people listen because they know he has the authority of the vice president behind him.

Daniels is taking a 75-year stream of road payments that should be managed by nine governors all for himself. He will be gone in eight years. Why are we in such a rush to give this vast authority to this governor?

Condemnation is very nice, but it won't bring back to life the people who were killed. The Palestinian Authority has to take concrete steps to make arrests, to put people behind bars, to put obstacles in the way of the terrorists.

Maria Cantwell

Congress has authority to protect, I believe, our most important species,

The next step is really for that port authority board to conduct their first meeting. I would expect that to be a sort of organizational meeting, where they might create things like bylaws.

The news that Bush was aware of or maybe authorized the (intelligence) leak is what's causing the weakness in the market.

You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can't.

Then, it only becomes a question of getting inspectors back in the plant to recertify. From a business standpoint, there is no impact because there isn't a single U.S. company authorized to ship to Japan today because of the border being closed.

Then we'll be bringing our draft recommendations to council and the Port Authority by early fall.

Patrick Fitzgerald

It is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.

It is Scholastic's and author J.K. Rowling's wish that all readers, especially children, have the opportunity to experience

Jane Smiley

It's a gimmick. It's more fun. Usually, you're just standing there, trying to look compelling in some way and not succeeding. It can look like a mug shot. The author can look, not exactly like a deer in the headlights, but a little bit like another night creature scuttling from burrow to burrow.

Roger Williams

I told him it wasn't and that the person who gave that opinion was not authorized to do so.

Peter Baker

It's an ongoing problem. I'm a firm believer that the project manager needs the authority to make decisions without going to higher-ups once the project has been authorized.

Catherynne M. Valente

It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and morally wrong fan fiction and fan fiction writers are, and then the Internet gets all upset and shocked, and then the author is shocked that people could get so upset.

It's authority we need to do our job more effectively.

Mike Huckabee

It's a bad idea for the military to make that decision and usurp the authority that under the U.S. Constitution stays with the governor and local authorities,

It's convenient, ... If there is no statute, even if we see something, we don't have authority to do anything about it.

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply protecting at any cost an increasingly dangerous actor on the international stage.

It is the position of the university that any such offers cannot be valid without the express authority and consent of the university as the current legal owner of the Circleville Farm property.

Eddie O'Sullivan

It's great that we're authors of our own destiny in this championship.

It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of.

Patricia Cornwell

It's criminal if successful authors don't support literacy. I challenge them all to write a check.

It shows that the author of the study says it doesn't have anything to do with reliability.

It should release detainees it has no legal authority to hold. It should provide trials to detainees believed to have committed crimes and it should investigate and prosecute US officials responsible for the torture of detainees.