Quotes About Authority

Your husband should tan ye, woman," said an austere voice from the blackness under a tree. "St. Paul says 'Let a woman be silent, and—' " "You can mind your own bloody business," I snarled, sweat dripping behind my ears, "and so can St. Paul.

Och, I want them frightened of me, Sassenach. It's the only way I'll have a chance of bringing them out of it alive.

The Continental army got more generals than they got private soldiers, these days. An officer lives through more 'n two battles, they make him some kind of general on the spot. Now, gettin' any pay for it, that's a different kettle of fish.

Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking tea and debating with himself whether the authoritative benefits conferred by wearing his uniform outweighed the possible consequences - both sartorial and social - of wearing it into the slumps of London to inspect a three-day-old corpse.

motioned to the sergeant-major to turn the prisoner around to show his back.

head of the gangplank, she would drop the goat

He was actually capable of dressing himself, though both he and Tom acted on the tacit assumption that he wasn't. But what he missed most at the moment was the sense of solemn ceremony that attended Tom's dressing him in full uniform. It was as though he assumed a different persona with scarlet coat and gold lace, Tom's respect giving him belief in his own authority, as though he put on not only uniform but armor and office.

If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.

There is a saying, "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." I promptly invented its analogy, based on experience: "When no one knows what to do, anyone with a sensible suggestion is going to be listened to.

Put not your trust in princes'?

I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

earth that would make him humiliate himself in that fashion before the Sergeant. "Write. It. Down." The Sergeant bit off the words between his teeth.

My Son-in-law astutely observes that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

that a Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Que todo el mundo se calle —ordenó con firmeza—. Voy a leer.

A government derives its powers from the just consent of the governed," I quoted, nodding. "For a Committee of Safety to have any legitimacy, there needs to be an obvious threat to the public safety. Clever of the Browns to have reasoned that out." He gave me a look, one auburn brow raised. "Who said that? The consent of the governed." "Thomas Jefferson," I replied, feeling

Drunk wi' power," he remarked disapprovingly to the ceiling. "Verra unwomanly attitude, that.

You may," Tom Byrd corrected, entering with his hands full of grooming implements, "once I've put his lordship's hair to rights." He fixed Grey with a minatory eye. "You're not a-going in to dinner like that, me lord, and don't you think it. You sit down there." He pointed sternly to a stool, and Lieutenant-Colonel Grey, commander of His Majesty's forces in Jamaica, meekly obeyed the dictates of his twenty-one-year-old valet.

The Governor glared at him for a moment, lips pressed tight, but then his shoulders sagged in defeat. "I will," he said shortly. "But I should regard it as a great personal favor if you would endeavor not to be captured.

Well, I suppose men can make all the laws they like," he said, "but God made hope.

I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

I learned from my dad and my mom somebody should only have to tell you once. Whether it's me getting in trouble, they said I should only have to tell you once. I've kind of took that and made that for all aspects.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!