Quotes About Authority

Kids and freedom are mutually exclusive.

Behind my questions lies the assumption that Wendell is a more competent human being than I am. Sometimes I wonder, Who am I to make the important decisions in my own life? Am I really qualified for this?

It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.

In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

Is there anyone there with you? she asked. He turned his phone so she could see that he was in his bedroom at Vallejo Street, alone except for Pita sleeping on his pillow. I thought she wasn't allowed on your pillow. She's not, he said. But apparently she's the ruler and I'm just her bitch.

He snorted. "Elle, you're always right. It's your world and we all just live in it.

The little shit was standing on it like he owned it, wet, sandy paws and all. "Arf, arf!

I figured you'd come here and try to do something stupid." "I did nothing of the kind." "You don't consider ducking beneath that yellow tape stupid?" "Only if I'd gotten caught.

mother of teenagers, blew out a frustrated breath. "I knew if I caved to the 'Oh please, can we have a puppy, Mom!' that I'd be the one to end up here," she said. "I'm not good at this. I've told him to sit a million times.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

Wait. You work for me? I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence.

Yeah, but I forgot to take my George Orwell-shaped multivitamins along with my breakfast bowl of Big Brother Os this morning.

Molly blinked, then looked at Thomas and said, Wait a minute.... We're his flunkies. You, may be, Thomas said, sneering. I'm his thug. I'm way higher than a flunky. You are high if you think I'm taking any orders from you, Molly said tartly.

You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.

Still going with the phallic foci, eh? Staff and rod? They make me feel all manly.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

I'm a wizard. That means I have power, and power and responsibility go hand in hand.

That's Doctor Smart-ass. I didn't spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister.

We've got a goddamned wizard! Fuck those guys!

Form up, I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, You guys go first.

Mab had the kind of power you had to describe using exponents.

Mab] was pale, beautiful on a scale that beggared simple description, and I harbored a healthy and rational terror of her.

That's the true power of a wizard. I know things. Knowledge is power. With power comes responsibility.

If the Eagle Scouts had some sort of Sith equivalent, Marcone was it.