Famous Quotes & Sayings

The MRA takes the heat for everything that happens in the watershed, ... But they have no enforcement authority or responsibility.

Advertisers are already watching where people go on sites and now they're trying to get details of what is actually bought. Companies holding personal profiles should be required by law to handle the information with extreme care and only use it for the primary authorized purpose.

Silvio Berlusconi

A formula for reform must be found capable of overcoming such embarrassment and a positive way of leading this institution to greater strength, to greater authority for resolving international problems and international crises must be found,

Lynn Coady

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

Once the sentencing in this case is complete we are going to look at all the evidence federal authorities have obtained and will release. We will use it to evaluate the handling of this investigation and future investigations.

Felix Frankfurter

Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority

David Mitchell

Depending on how far he goes with his recommendations this could have a big impact on how politics is managed and how government exercises its authority in the decades to come,

Michael Williams

Denying reimbursement to the city of Tyler, while difficult, was the right thing to do under law because the commission has no authority that has not been given to it by the Texas Legislature. We must correctly interpret the law.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

Chad Johnson

Thanks to higher authority, I can't open my mouth, period, all week.

James Baker

Some will argue, as was done in 1990, that going for United Nations authority and not getting it will weaken our case,

Mal Peet

Teen authors love to flirt with taboo, to grapple - sensitively - with dark and frightening issues, and there is nothing darker and more frightening than cancer.

Russell Simmons

Seeing these heroes is inspiring. T.I. has authority.

Graham Taylor

Self assessment, combined with the authority of the Certified Open processes, gives us a light touch/high rigor approach. Even the smallest supplier can compete on level terms. This is very much a scheme where both the public and private sectors jointly benefit from a more open market.

Jonathan Mayhew

Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief

Javier Solana

It would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow. The taxpayers in the European Union, members of the Parliament of the European Union, will not be in a position to sustain that type of political activity.

The shipping community wants to have some comfort that the transfer will be a seamless one and that Panamanian authorities have seized their responsibility to run the canal in a professional way.

Roger Wicker

These earmarks are authorized to be spent out of dedicated revenue - with highway trust fund money from gasoline taxes. That's one reason doing earmarks is such a good idea,

Molly Antopol

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.

Richard Pombo

the states should have ultimate authority over resource production, including the power to prevent it, in the deep waters off their coasts.

Stanley Milgram

The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.

The (state) constitution gives the overall authority for elections like everything else to the governor,

The State Board of Education has . . . constitutional authority to direct the public schools. I don't think there's anything more (basic) in that responsibility than curriculum.

The single thing the journals can do is make the authors visibly responsible for the work because, in the end, the editors can't be there. Credit and blame go together.

The Senegalese authorities insist that the Dakar continues as always with a podium finish and the prize presentations because this is a national event in Senegal.

The stroke that Sharon suffered illustrated to Israelis how much they need him now. In the eyes of most of them, including many who support rival parties, he is the conclusive authority on security matters.

The story is not true. Nothing happened. The authorities never contacted Mr.Cosby, and the first he learned of it was from the National Enquirer.

Richard Caborn

The slate has been wiped clean and every local authority will have their chance to make its case.

The student regent is regarded with the same respect and authority as the other regents.

Mike White

The Sports Authority has (signed it), but the county hasn't, because we've had physical possession of the leases up until now.

Authors are easy to get on with - if you're fond of children.

Erich Fromm

Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.