Quotes About Authority

Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.

Do I look like someone who cares about what God thinks?

Man has created God in his image which gives him dominance over everything else: Birds, lions, trees and women.

There is nothing more galling than for a stupid man to be lording it over us women merely because of his masculinity. Let him stew. It will not be he who solves this puzzle, be sure.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

Forgiveness is cheaper than permission.

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.

I am the Sovereign of Iss!" the girl declared. "And you are the daughter of Ciwril Xidyla! They had better listen to us.

Twas Morgan's protest and the Mebd silenced her with a glance.

One cannot serve angels, Angel. One must own them.

You have power, lady, and that power is of interest to my Queen. As it is to the one who holds my esteemed counterpart's leash.

She'll want to own whomever she names.

Benedick considered his earlier thoughts about Nova's serenity and undeveloped personality. He wasn't sure he'd ever heard an angel sound miserably worried before. They were voices of authority, arrogance, comfort, calm-or at least, they always had been.

That's the lieutenant governor of New York, isn't it?" "It's a day job. To us she's the archmage.

Will lifted his chin to catch Murchaud's gaze, thinking when did I grow so comfortable, challenging Princes?

Vincent Katherinessen, the Old Earth Colonial Coalition's velvet-gloved iron hand, for too field-effective to the categorized as a mere diplomatic envoy no matter how his passport was coded.

What are kings good for, from the perspective of the common people, except dragging your folk off to fight in other kings' wars?

Fyodor Stephanovich dominated the room with the careless ease that one would expect of a Prince among wolves.

I used to make people like you as servants.

Somehow, the softness in her deep gray eyes was worse than censure or a Queen's cold wrath.

She tossed her hair behind her shoulder. Not a coquette's gesture, but a queen's.

Tom and Ben were silent, tall pillars on either side of the poets and the Prince.

Doctors are an enormous pain in the ass. Trust me. I know. I am one.

Two years of finishing school not entirely wasted. I can manage an imperious exit.