Quotes About Authoritative

A traditional and hence anticipated rule of interpretation, no less than a traditional and hence anticipated meaning of a word, imparts meaning.

The righteous anger of an authoritative leader doesn't cast anyone into outer darkness. It always promises to be forgotten when things are set right, because authoritative leaders have no permanent enemies and are capable of love for all. Authoritative leaders can get angry, but they are still nice people.

The orders and directives issued on the basis of government decisions should be exhaustive and factual. Deep and thorough examination is required before taking a decision on important policy matters.

Do you promise? He demanded again. I can't let you go, Alek. She said softly. You...what?

Zarek? (Astrid) What?! (Zarek) Don't use that tone with me. I like to know where people are in my house. Be nice, or I'll make you wear a cowbell. (Astrid)

Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.

This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

where the laws are not authoritative demagogues arise. For the populace becomes a monarch when it turns from many into a single composite, since the many are in authority not as particular persons but all together.

which is a polite way of saying that he is the bossier one.

Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.' 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my voice doesn't change the truth.

She loathed stubborn men: they were so often underqualified and overpresumptuous.

newer approaches to textual editing have been skeptical of the concept of an authoritative text, let alone an editor's ability to distinguish such a text among multiple versions.

I'm from a more rigourous journalistic background. If I say a car is good or bad, the viewers can trust the fact that I have spent all my working life reviewing cars.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

He was pure alpha male

He was tall and abrupt and exactly the kind of guy you wanted to be walking the streets with.

She is one of those people who are completely calm and competent, and as a result no one ever messes with her.

who was never seen drunk, a man whose power rested in quiet confidence and calm deliberation

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. . . . Do not defend God's Word, but testify to it. . . . Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity!

I believed—that all three were very well qualified

He told me that the Fed should do what it believed necessary.

I have a great sense of humour. I am teasing, taunting and authoritative.

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On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.