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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

- Peter Straub Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.

- Barbara Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

- Maureen Dowd Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on political power never abdicates.

- Frank Chodorov Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

- John Acton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.

- John Abizaid Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Concerned drivers need to know that the state has no authority to stop companies from charging higher gasoline rates unless there is a violation of antitrust or consumer protection laws.

- Attorney McKenna Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By what moral authority does America let this girl die

- David Gibbs Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But there's rank, and then there's authority.

- David George Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ross said the report allowed both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to move without appearing to make unpopular concessions. It may give each of them an excuse to do something, ... They will not respond to each other. That much is very clear.

- Dennis Ross Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

- Bryant McGill Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

- Bill Maher Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The county has the authority to handle organics, there's no doubt about it, ... But I don't know why you are so vocal about something you know we can't do much about.

- Keith Thompson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.

- Jacob Bronowski Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In effect the EU will pay electricity bills for them, direct to the utilities concerned, including in Israel, and not to the Palestinian Authority.

- Emma Udwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I felt like I needed to (get more aggressive), ... I need to make these guys scared of my forehand, and that's what I tried to do today. I tried to serve with a little bit more authority and ended up hitting my second serves great.

- Andy Roddick Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Ordinarily, such a presidential session would take weeks of discussion and dozens of e-mails to lock into place. Edward G. Abington Jr., a former State Department official who advises the Palestinian Authority, said he had rarely seen something so unscripted. I chalk it up to her, ... I think it's a reflection of how Hughes had gotten hammered over the Palestinian issue.

- Karen Hughes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They can't chain my spirit My spirit runs free Walls can't contain it Laws can't restrain it Authority has no power over it

- Bill Watterson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.

- William Penn Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

- Julius Wellhausen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

- Benjamin Tucker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

- Ralph Steadman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline-I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

- Hal Holbrook Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

- James Hillman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

- Pete du Pont Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes