Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

We have a policy, ... If you want to change the policy, go to the committee, go to the appropriate authority.

Stephen Harper

We have in office a corrupt party which now is ignoring the democratically expressed will of the House of Commons. This government does not have the moral authority and the constitutional authority to govern.

We are telling the private sector that the city of Tampa and the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority have no more money to put into this.

This process isn't something we're trying to hide. We've had this authority since before the Department of Homeland Security was created.

There are very few top conductors in this world. You need incredible authority, experience, charisma. And formal training is the first step. It's not like you can just get on the podium and be a conductor.

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

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.

Aristotle

Authority is no source for Truth.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Tobin being here full time is good ? you want someone with authority on site. That will make decision-making a lot faster.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt

Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Ellen Key

In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.

Cesar Millan

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Ariel Sharon

We are concerned that this welcome quiet will be shattered any minute as a result of the continued existence of terror organizations which the Palestinian Authority is doing nothing to eliminate or dismantle.

Gilles Duceppe

When they don't have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don't want the Liberals any more. So we're expressing the voices of all those that elected us.

Lysander Spooner

It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution; or even give any authority to the state governments to establish it as a new institution. The greatest sticklers for slavery do not claim this.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

The defendant's style in this case is to be passive-aggressive. She flouts this court's authority at every opportunity so that it makes this trial somewhat of a farce.

The defendant, as a teacher at the school, was in a position of trust and authority over the children.

Anne Bradstreet

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Bernie Siegel

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.