Quotes About Authority

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Sir Rheynold had always taught him that you needed to establish control the first time someone questioned your authority, not the sixth or seventh time. By then it was too late and your weakness was known.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

I am Isobel née Lacoyo Távora, Isobel of Flood, the Left Hand. My blood is on the devil's Contract, his sigil on my palm.

Hey, 27. Way to skip HistCulture and almost die. Classy." "Yeah," I said, matching her nonchalant tone. "It was so much fun. You should try it sometime. Did the drone…?" "Leave yet? Yes. Did it mean to fly in our airspace? My opinion is no, which I'm writing up in this report that will most likely be ignored," Eva sighed.

mayor responsabilidad sobre los resultados.

Your Tone Is Your Superpower

what he really disliked were people who thought they were above the law. The law was the law, and no one was exempt.

Because as good a cop as he was, as good a man as he was, he could be infuriating. And controlling. And arrogant.

What's the difference between God and a federal judge?" "I don't know." "God doesn't think he's a federal judge." Tara

The fatal poison of irresponsible power.

In her experience, it was those first sixty seconds, from the moment she flashed her P.I. license to the end of her pitch, that she was most likely to earn someone's cooperation. Older people were the easiest, if only because they were so often bored out of their minds that they welcomed any distraction. Men were curt, but they usually found the time, as long as she did the little-me, big-eye, big-chest thing. Women were more skeptical, because women spent their lives listening to bullshit.

It's impossible to imagine her in thrall to anything, anyone. She calls the shots even while pretending not to. Even in motherhood, she has shown this steely control.

Así pasa con la letra escrita: aunque nadie la lea, basta con que esté ahí para que gravite como ley de bendición o condena.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.

Like the captain of a ship, you should always consult with your officers before making a decision, taking their viewpoints and suggestions into account. But the decisions are ultimately yours, and you must make them. If you don't, circumstances will make your decisions for you.

Since I can't get this leashoff and take myself for a walk, what would you suggest, baby?" she lifted her chin "that's princess to you

But like other well-behaved women they chose to obey God rather than men.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

If Sergeant Cooper wasn't impressed by Ruby's time-keeping, then her flouting of the camp dress code really got him marching up and down. His least favourite item was a T-shirt printed with the words: could you repeat that? I wasn't actually listening . 'Redfort, how many times have I told you about that T-shirt of yours?' 'I'm sorry Sergeant Cooper, I haven't been counting, but I can take a wild guess if it's important to you.

You shut up. I'm older and I'm not going to stay at your palace of decadence and deviance." --Brody to Erin.

Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn't like you.

There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.