Quotes About Authority

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

I'm never overawed by a situation and I think that's because I've always looked several years older than I am. So because people were treating me like I was 40 when I was 29, I've always felt in control of a situation. People used to say, when you're 32, you'll look 32. I'm still waiting for that moment, where my age catches up with my appearance.

And you would be docile strung up by your ankles," Tobias said smoothly. "One stroke. Now try again.

Opinions on the Crown and the government in general tend to make digestion much more of a chore than it should be.

Kings don't beg, they decree. They have only one destiny and that's to reign. God has made you king. Reign and rule, refuse to beg!

Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

Jesus gave us the victory with which He overcame Satan, and commissioned us to cast out devils in His Name.

The anointing puts you over, because you now belong in the Kingdom of wisdom and knowledge.

It's absolutely imperative that you speak forth the Word concerning you, because until you do, it will have no power and it won't work!

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

What is it they say about an organisation being like a tree full of monkeys? The ones at the top look down and see a lot of smiling faces, the ones at the bottom look up and see a bunch of arseholes?

The theory is that the people who do the work are the highest authorities on how best to do it.

caliphs (khalifa means 'deputy' – that is to say, of God), ruled

Die Glocke reißt Gedankengänge ab in der Schulstunde, schneidet Plaudereien in der Pause auseinander, trennt Freundinnen im Garten, macht Herzklopfen vor unangenehmen Schulstunden, reißt einem die Tasse vom Mund beim Frühstück. Die Glocke ist Befehl. Unpersönlicher, gnadenloser, ewig gleichbleibender Ordner eines ereignislosen Daseins.

I ask myself what gives a person, what gave that woman, the right to confront us with decisions that we are not equal to making, decisions that tear us apart and leave us feeling inferior, incompetent, guilty.

Care, admitted as guest, quickly turns to be master.

It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.

Protestant insistence on the written word in the Bible as the only and sufficient Christian authority for faith and practice relies on an impossible anachronism that artificially projects a modern standard of authority and means of knowledge conveyance retrospectively back into a pre-modern reality that operated by different but reliable and legitimate standards.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

These women are a little afraid of Mrs. Murphy, I can see. Over the course of dinner I notice that she can be snappish and short-tempered, and she likes to be the boss. When one of them expresses an opinion she disagrees with, she looks around at the group and gathers allies for her position. But she is nothing but kind to me.

Mr. Grote doesn't believe in government telling him what to do. Tell the truth, he doesn't believe in government at all. He has never been to school a day in his life and doesn't see the point. But he'll send me to school if that's what it takes to keep the authorities out of his hair.

This is our privy. Don't ever let Mrs. Byrne catch you using the one in the house." She pronounces catch "kitch.