Quotes About Authority

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

Ask you to keep an eye on her, keep her safe, and you allow my child to be used in that! Flatten your fur, Weiryn, replied the badger. What makes you think I had a choice? The Great Ones can find another instrument! Why didn't you tell them so? I did tell them, you horn-headed idiot. They didn't listen. She didn't listen. If you have a complaint, you take it up with the Graveyard Hag.

The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.

Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit.

She preferred to avoid battles with them now so she would have authority with them later if she needed to use it. They never say it's one thing to be given command by your superiors and another to be given it by the men under you, she thought as she and Neal rode back to Haven.

Shut your gob, You tell me nothing in my kennel. Here, I am Queen Bitch, and you will muzzle yourself. Kebibi Ahuda to prisoner

His voice was full of authority. Fana hadn't realized how easy it was to make lies sound plausible. "Can

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

It was usual to be obedient to authority, to obey a legal letter. But Rachaela left her bills unpaid until the threats began. She ignored the money-envelopes stuck through the door for starving children and the sick.

Your leave to sit." "The countryside is as much yours as mine, sir." "Damn you then, I'll sit." "It's hardly needful you should send me to Hell for that. But then, you have another way in mind.

It was apparent the mistress of the house was here in the person of the girl with the white hands. And it seemed she possessed authority, for one unruly youth had fled, the other two lay matronless, as if in abject fear, before her. When she spoke again, her young voice was like a thin knife.

She bowed herself almost to the ground before Sarmur's daughter, with the flamboyant courtesy of one who secretly rules the kingdom.

Old ladies in the Gale family drove like they owned the roads. And the other drivers. And the local police department. And the laws of physics.

Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe.

I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass. Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight. Pole - All of them? Torrin - Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses. Pole - Did you just say that? Torrin - Yeah, Torrin offered him her hand. Get over it.

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?

And since when do we do what the ship wants?" "Pretty much from the moment the air lock blew," Ryder snorted.

Your Royal Majesty.

My name is Gerhard Braun, and I am God.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Once created, a power vacuum will be filled, whether by you or some asshole.

We need rules that limit our leaders' powers more than we need rules that limit our rights.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

that was the beauty of writing one's own tale. She could do whatever she wanted. She'd always wanted to be an evil overlord. Or a nice one. She had no real preference. Just so long as she was in charge.