Famous Quotes & Sayings

It took cutting through a lot of red tape to get the permission to build from the local authorities. There was no land available for building the village.

Federica Montseny

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

George Santayana

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

I do know that some MPs give authority to another MP to put their name on such a motion. But I can't think of any member who would do so in this instance. I will look into the matter. That's the best I can do and I will continue watching Big Brother in my spare time.

Dimitri Simes

Color revolutions succeed when the authorities are not only authoritarian but also lack self-confidence ... Until President Lukashenko loses popularity in Belarus, I don't think his regime will have any serious problems.

He also calls on the Government of Lebanon to extend its authority over all of its territory in accordance with Security Council resolutions.

Paul Singer

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

For the first time since he came to power in 2000, he has a unique chance to impose his authority on rival power centers and emerge as the real ruler of Syria,

Julia Quinn

I don't think that writing talent has much to do with where one went to school, or the number of degrees on one's business card, but I do get a bit bristly at the implication that romance authors couldn't possibly be smart enough to get into an Ivy League school.

Jane Goldman

I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.

Scott Turow

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

Maria Semple

I always write authors after I read their books. I've been doing it for years. I write a formal letter and send it to them in care of their agent. My mother always taught us to write thank you notes, and if an author puts themselves out there, they like to hear that their book connected with someone.

I believe in the word of the U.S. authorities. They have expressed themselves clearly in the proper relation. Let's hope that they will find a way to simply convert its words into actions.

Abraham Lincoln

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

James Gunn

I feel a bit like Ellen Glasgow (I think it was) who said that she was the master and characters did what she said. I'm envious of authors whose characters become so real to them that they take off in their own directions, but my philosophy of teaching, as well as writing, is to demystify the process.

I don't think the state of North Dakota has the authority to collect the tax to begin with. I think they're in violation of our sovereign rights, and of federal law.

Jacques Barzun

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Jacques Barzun

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Louise Arbour

The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.

The case has been deferred till May 2006 while there are ongoing discussions between the Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration into the matter.

The (Colombian) government authorized the French government to intercede on behalf of the people who have been kidnapped,

The finance committee has been given authority to determine what to do as far as do we tap the reserves or make uniform proportionate cuts. We are looking at tapping the reserve as part of a possible solution.

The Commission should be welcomed for acknowledging a problem with their food safety authority, but it needs to go further.

The commission lacked the necessary statutory authority to respond more robustly with meaningful civil penalties and express anti-manipulation authority. The commission played a weak hand rather well, in my opinion.

The concept is to be able to help the Palestinian people, to be able to help the Palestinian Authority during this transition period.

Thomas Merton

An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.

the elegance, power and authority to make it a valuable contribution to the scholarship of this country.

The entire case, what this has always been about, is authority, ... Pfc. England's blind compliance toward authority and her lack of authority in any context.

The hearing will be conducted tomorrow because of the transcendental importance of the issues involved. There is authority for the view that the court will decide the question even if it has been rendered moot.

Ryan Holmes

The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.

The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.

The impulse to form independent authorities is profoundly undemocratic.

The images will be made broadly available and posted on the Web. Their release was just authorized so I imagine it will take a while.