Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.

Susanna Moore

As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.

Sid Fleischman

I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous novels for children. Or an author at all. I had a childhood much like everyone else's. What went wrong?

Ray Nagin

He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving, ... And he's getting some stuff done. They ought to give that guy - if they don't want to give it to me - give him full authority to get the job done, and we can save some people.

Gilles Duceppe

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no longer has their trust?

Whatever Beverage said, the governor's office was not involved in this. Beverage was not speaking on the authority of the governor.

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

What matters in our eyes is that he's the president's choice and that he's close to the president. That gives him certainly the authority to deal with us in New York.

Elaine Pagels

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all.

There is huge irony here. Six Democrats in Congress were eliminated, but the seventh victim may turnout to be the author of the plan.

The people should have the authority to change the laws.

Bob Ross

We train one-quarter of the commercial pilots in the United States, so when we heard about this tragedy we knew the odds were good one of pilots would be involved. It turns out maybe some that were not authorized to fly were also pilots.

I am in charge and all our civilian authorities are in charge, and my relation with General Mladic has improved and of course General Mladic sometimes looks defiant, but he is not defiant -- only he has to be concerned about our safety. Everything goes really well, all of my orders are carried out, and even (my) personal relationship with General Mladic has improved, so there is no threat that there will be disarray in the Serbian republic.

Rebecca Stead

I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Nigel Barker

I am always on the go; being a photographer, filmmaker, author and a father, things become stressful, and it is important to find time to escape for a few minutes.

Ronald Reagan

I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer, just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals . . . The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom, and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

John Edwards

I believe the president should have been given the authority he was given. I believe it's a very good thing that Saddam is gone. ... I think at the time it was the right thing to do to give the president that authority. I think if we'd have given John Kerry that authority we'd be in a very different place because he would have built a coalition to be successful.

James Howe

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

Lorde

I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

Jane Green

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.

Carlos Queiroz

He went to make a statement as was planned. Based on those statements, the authorities are going to reach fair and correct conclusions,

He has been transferred by the authorities in Belgrade. We believe he's a Bosnian Serb.

He is an extremely well-liked, well-respected, model inmate in the system by the authorities as well as by the inmates. Some of the inmates have come to sympathize with him because of his special restrictions.

Thomas Jefferson

No doubt President Jefferson was brilliant - probably the key author of the American constitution. But the PNP and Jamaica have our own Thomas Jefferson ... former leader and Premier Norman Washington Manley. Indeed Norman Washington Manley was better - note the word

Plus, the response from Sept. 11 was a lot different. You had (government officials) out there with a sense of control and authority, despite what we saw in 'Fahrenheit 9-11.' Here, the complete lack of authority immediately becomes the type of stuff that comedians are great at doing.

One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.

I give them a lot of running room and authority to do their jobs. All of that I tried to leave for my senior people and I've found ... generally that works very well. Get the best people, give them plenty of authority and let them develop their own ideas and organizations and go with it.

If we were here talking about dangerous dogs smoking, the city would have authority. This is not about smoking. This is about which level of government can regulate it.

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

If the health authority can't handle the call, it shouldn't stop there,

If someone got terminated from my company tomorrow, it would be easy for me to revoke your rights to the presentations and documents that are spinning on their notebook computer. Once documents get out and you don't have a tie back to licensing authority how do you make those documents disappear?

Anthony de Mello

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Chuck Smith

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.