Apparent Authority Quotes

#1. I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent authority. I think that is fundamental to a good education. And if it comes back to bite me from time to time, that's a price worth paying.

Martine Millman

#2. Knowledge does away with darkness, suspense, and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is ... In knowledge there is power.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#3. You see, God has given us all the clues we need in a complex mystery, and we just need to figure it out. Along the way, we learn, and we become better people

Amelia C. Adams

#4. Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

Ruth Ozeki

#5. 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

#6. They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

Charles Dickens

#7. I'll admit I said something I shouldn't have said.

John Rocker

#8. I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Robert Barry

#9. I'm trying to make myself invisible."
"That's an odd thing to attempt.

Lloyd Alexander

#10. Keep that hate alive in your heart, lad. It'll warm you when nothing else will.

Brian Keene

#11. I don't like weddings. I never have. I find moments in them I really like, but I always look at them like, "Oh my God, we have to go to a wedding." My problem with weddings is that they are just too long.

Paul Feig