Appealing To Authority Quotes

#1. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Don't use the word gay unless it's an acronym for GAY (Got Aids Yet?) .

Bob Dornan

#5. I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return."
"Nothing? You call your theory nothing"
"Weigh it in the balance with the freedom of one single human spirit," he said, turning to her, "and which will weigh heavier? Can you tell? I cannot.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Leave a good story.

Aramis Barron

#7. I agree
the world isn't a nursery. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort. (53)

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. Time will say nothing but I told you so ...

W. H. Auden

#9. After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

Lucy Robinson

#10. I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, and if I saw Bruce Lee try to be some namby-pamby lawyer, I'd want my money back.

Jason Statham

#11. But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. Keep in mind this basic axiom - if all that now exists was once imagined, then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.

Wayne W. Dyer

#13. What use is status if you have no one to share it with, Dad?

Renita D'Silva

#14. Even though I was death, she took the time to resuscitate me. She breathed life back into my soul. She brought me back from the shadows.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#15. You're breathing the same air as a bunch of pill-popping manic depressives, alcoholics, and schizophrenics. You've been drinking tea with a bunch of crazy teenage washouts. It seems I'm the only sane one here.

Kirkland Ciccone

#16. He wore normal clothes, but his dark skin contrasted with the rest of the bystanders.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#17. Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

W. Eugene Smith