Quotes About Accepting Authority

#1. We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Eric Metaxas

#2. You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar."
Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty.

Faith Hunter

#3. SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom

Douglas Adams

#4. Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

Flann O'Brien

#5. We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

Phil Knight

#6. I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.

Raymond Franz

#7. Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

Marcello Truzzi

#8. If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing, keep behind him.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. You are the only real authority in your life, but you yield that status to so many externals by believing in them, by having been punished or forced into accepting them.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#10. The child doesn't just live in his environment, it becomes a part of him.

Paula Polk Lillard

#11. Embrace the gift of autumn; where every flower radiates its splendor.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#13. I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

Rajneesh

#14. There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Haile Selassie

#15. Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course) ... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions.

Robert L. Devaney

#16. One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It's hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It's implicit.

Cliff James

#17. When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

#18. The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Charles P. Kindleberger

#19. Encourage your child to think for himself, disagree, and talk about his feelings while accepting your authority.

Henry Cloud

#20. Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

John Connolly

#21. There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,
by laying them out in charity.

John Tillotson

#22. Friday, August 04, 2006
MONUMENT
posted 8:31 AM
Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.

William Gibson

#23. I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

Ingrid Betancourt

#24. If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

Amy Sedaris