KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Quotes for topic: Authority


Share this page on

Showing 171-180 of 234 quotes in the topic Authority

Hurricane Katrina was the storm of the 21st century. It devastated an area the size of Great Britain. More than 1,800 Americans died. Three hundred thousand homes were destroyed. There was $96 billion in property damage. I served on the Louisiana Recovery Authority. I saw Congress write one big check and then skip town.

~Donna Brazile

Topics: American Area Authority Big Billion Britain Century Check Congress Damage Destroyed Devastated Died Great Great Britain Homes Hundred Hurricane Hurricane Katrina Katrina Louisiana More Property Recovery Saw Served Size Skip Storm Than Then Thousand Three Town Were Write 21St Century

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

~Dorothea Dix

Topics: Any Arbitrary Authority Enforced Established Exercise Exhibition Firmly Increased Increases Kindly May Must Necessity Never Numbers Prisons Rules Suffer Understood Vigilance While Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

~Dr. Dre

Topics: Age Always Authority Early Early Age Hated Me

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Authority Context Different Distributed Important Institution Leadership Leading Learned Lessons Many Most Places Sort Stake The Most Important Think Understanding Universities Which Whom You I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

~E. L. Doctorow

Topics: Authority Culture Did Dominating Feeling Had Lost Storytelling Then

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts of the poetic self. Re-examining notions of the authority within the poem, and of the poem.

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Among Authority Been Doing Engaged Notions One Of The Things Other Parts Poem Poetic Poets Self Things Within Women

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Arab Authority Bank Economic Palestinian Rest States Support Virtually West West Bank

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Arab Authority Between Continue Economy Extremely Highly Likely Limited Palestinian States Trade Will

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

~Edith Sitwell

Topics: Am Authority Because Become Church Discipline Fire Hope Hopelessly Step Taken Unworthy Want Worthy I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: About American Authority Been Before Between Common Distrust England Ever Government Imperial Keeping More Over Powers Replaced Revolution Since Than Them Visible Worried

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Popular Authors

Rihanna Arthur Schopenhauer Kurt Vonnegut Robin Williams Amy Winehouse John Wooden Frank Lloyd Wright Steven Wright

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1906 - Satchel Paige

1907 - Robert A. Heinlein

1711 - David Hume

1860 - Gustav Mahler

1880 - Thomas Brooks

1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger

1887 - Marc Chagall

1889 - James Welch

1899 - George Cukor

1901 - Vittorio De Sica

Birthdays on July 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Alone Experience Food Forgiveness Graduation History Independence Morning