Quotes About Authority

I know some Australian players who were at Dortmund when he was there and found out about him. Wagner is a leader and makes all the decisions, but of course the players have to perform and deliver what he wants.

I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.

To empower women, power must be given to them, presumably by an entity that already has it. And that entity is the patriarchy. This also implies that women must be on the receiving end, waiting - politely - to be empowered. Very Victorian-era courtship, isn't it?

We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government.

Jay-Z has kind of shown that you can get to the very top without waiting, without following rules. In fact, it's better if you don't. People will admire you more if you break the rules.

I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.

When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.

Being the patriarch means having to exercise discipline every waking moment, and that includes the second you wake up.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

I was captain of Wales; I've been captain of numerous football clubs.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, 'bank left.' If you're in management, you have the controls.

When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.