Top 100 Authority On Quotes
#1. Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.
Tommy Bolt
#2. Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.
Gordon Dahlquist
#3. Stuart Blumberg is suddenly an authority on the modern - or, dare we say, post-modern - family, thanks to the critically-acclaimed debut of his new film, 'The Kids Are All Right.'
Rachel Sklar
#4. We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We shall gradually become experts ourselves in the mastery of the knowledge of the Future.
Wilhelm Reich
#5. From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk
Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports ... At this point I am an authority on menstruation.
Chuck Palahniuk
#6. I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
Gary Player
#8. Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
Francis Bacon
#9. Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.
Robert Scoble
#10. Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.
Nevill Drury
#11. We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.
Margaret Thatcher
#12. Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.
A.J. Darkholme
#13. Your time is your life. You are absolutely the final authority on how you will use it.
Anne Katherine
#14. I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.
Nick Minchin
#15. There can be no more reliable authority on earth than God's Word, the Bible. This timeless, trustworthy source of truth holds the key that unlocks life's mysteries. It alone provides us with the shelter we need in times of storm.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. Each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse ...
John Geddes
#17. But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
Vince McMahon
#18. When you confer spiritual authority on another person, you must realize that you are allowing them to pick your pocket and sell you your own watch. How
Alan W. Watts
#19. If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
Lewis Carroll
#20. Take it from me, an authority on expertise: You can't trust experts.
Jeff Schmidt
#21. He was now probably the world's leading authority on the greatest explorer of all time,
Arthur C. Clarke
#22. Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram
#23. PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.
Ambrose Bierce
#24. Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
Raheel Farooq
#25. The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankind.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#26. His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.
John R.W. Stott
#27. My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel.
Nicola Sturgeon
#28. My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.
Bill Cosby
#29. I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.
Flannery O'Connor
#30. Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.
Dana Gould
#32. It's utterly infuriating, the number of people I've encountered in my life who claimed to be the authority on God's will.
Rae Carson
#33. Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it ...
Saul Gorn
#34. I'm a seeker who writes about what I find. And maybe, on just the right day, I can help you flatten your learning curve. If I've got anything to say, it's this: you are the authority on you.
Danielle LaPorte
#35. I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.
Walt Disney
#36. I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
Bill Cosby
#37. God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.
Kirk Cameron
#38. Maybe I fell in love with the idea of love, but I'm a teenage girl. This morning I fell in love with raspberry jam and a puppy in a tiny raincoat. I'm not exactly Earth's top authority on the subject.
Leah Raeder
#39. To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.
Chuck Palahniuk
#40. When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?
Lundy Bancroft
#41. The Mirror Exercise You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. BRIAN TRACY Leading authority on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness
Jack Canfield
#42. I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.
Kelley Armstrong
#43. Black folks are often individually regarded as the authority on every facet of black culture and the people who create it, but it's exhausting for most black people to constantly be relied upon as the go-to official spokesnegro.
Justin Simien
#44. Even though Scientology sees itself as the authority on ethics and responsibility, obscuring the truth is built into its core.
Leah Remini
#45. Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh ... like uh ... like ... uh ... well, I'll think of it later.
George Burns
#46. Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).
Bill Cosby
#47. I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.
Miriam Toews
#48. I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
Hugh Lofting
#49. A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
Carlo Wolff
#50. Unless someone is trying to help you, don't you dare, ever let anyone tell you who and what you are, because, on this planet, you are the unquestionable and supreme authority on - you.
Bryant McGill
#51. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#52. Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir
#53. Anyone who sets themselves up as an authority on life is a charlatan.
Marty Rubin
#54. When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
Brand Blanshard
#55. Fish are not the best authority on water.
Jane Yolen
#56. One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.
Elmer Davis
#57. She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.
Ford Madox Ford
#58. When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.
Maya Angelou
#59. Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
Erich Fromm
#60. I can not impress on my readers too strongly the necessity to be firm but kind to a puppy. His idea of your authority is forming, and if he knows you give in on the slightest whimper, you are wacked for life.
Barbara Woodhouse
#61. Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#62. I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.
Erica Goros
#63. Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.
Frans De Waal
#64. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves. It cannot alter the eternal facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#65. Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go on without saying this much, that remarriage has helped a great deal in stopping crime in Fiji.
Totaram Sanadhya
#66. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
Anonymous
#67. Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
Jonathan Sacks
#68. RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.
Ambrose Bierce
#69. I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.
Catherine Marshall
#70. Messy love is better than none,
I guess. I am no authority
on sane living.
Margaret Atwood
#71. I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
Alex Kapranos
#72. He clenched his small fist, bellowed his rage to the heavens, and resolved to never again recognize the authority of any man on earth.
Patricia Lockwood
#73. After all, if you're going to kick authority in the teeth, it helps to have a manic smile on your face and a middle finger outstretched. Or, at the very least, armed with an ironic turn of phrase. Just ask any well meaning punk. Or Bob Dylan.
Unknown
#74. There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
Alexander Hamilton
#75. Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.
Mark Dever
#76. Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me.
Kenneth Mick
#77. Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.
Mitchell Baker
#78. Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
Jonathan Haidt
#79. The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.
Philip Kitcher
#80. Before people break the law, they need strong families - adult authority figures and the love of the family. When they step over the line, I'm a Tory. I believe in tough responses, in the law coming down on people like a ton of bricks.
David Cameron
#81. The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
Wyndham Lewis
#82. It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
Bertrand Russell
#83. Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.
T. B. Joshua
#84. God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#85. At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
Stendhal
#86. Why are you telling me?" Maura asked. "Why is your face so red?"
"Because you're my mother. Because you're an authority figure. Because you're supposed to inform people of your travel plans when you're hiking on dangerous trails. This is what my face always looks like.
Maggie Stiefvater
#87. The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.
Emma Goldman
#88. The Spirit of the Lord says that God is placing a crown of manifestation on the heads of His faithful, diligent, chosen saints - a crown of great favor and authority with God and men - a new and greater installment of the fruits and blessings of the Spirit. Another measure, and another, and another.
Todd Bentley
#89. asserting the ultimate authority of Scripture is the easy part; working out what the Scriptures actually teach on complex theological questions is what is difficult.
Kevin Giles
#90. Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#91. If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.
K.J. Parker
#92. I've brought you something to wear over your dress and I do not want to hear your views on killing animals to provide coats for the wealthy. I have it on the best authority that these ermine committed suicide.
Ann Cristy
#93. No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
Ernestine Rose
#94. As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.
Barbara Wentroble
#95. This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
Elizabeth Goudge
#96. Never depend on another person for your happiness. If someone had the authority to give, then he or she had the authority to take away.
Sejal Badani
#97. Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
Julian Baggini
#99. The Enlightenment (The beginning of) a way of pursuing knowledge with a tradition of criticism and seeking good explanations instead of reliance on authority.
David Deutsch
#100. I have it on good authority- well, I have it on distinctly disreputable but probably truthful authority- that his enterprises are perfectly well known to the local new police.
M.J. Carter
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