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— Principia Discordia author

In terms of the enhanced interrogation and so forth, anything that was legal and was going to make this country safer, the president wanted to do. Nothing that was illegal. And nothing that was going to make the country less safe. Unless you were there, in a position of responsibility after September 11th, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas that you faced in trying to protect Americans. You were determined to do anything that you could that was legal to prevent that from happening again... We were told, nothing that violates our obligations under the Convention Against Torture. And so, by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture.

— Condoleezza Rice author

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— Mankind author

worthyis open to interpretations the author did not intend.isn't your pet — it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

— Joss Whedon author

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— Artist author

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be ``the Union as it was.

— Lincoln author

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

— Mahmoud Abbas author

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

— Jill Abramson author

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

— Kate Adie author

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

— Manal al Sharif author

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander author

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

— John Ashcroft author

As a journalist, I'm not supposed to be the subject, but as an author, I'm fair game - another ingredient in the media soup.

— Michael Azerrad author

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

— Fredrik Bajer author

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

— David Baker author

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

— Pat Barker author

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta author

Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.

— Madison Smartt Bell author

Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.

— Harsha Bhogle author

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

— George Phillips Bond author

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

— Mary Bono author

Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.

— John Boyne author

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

— Sean Brady author

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

— Lakhdar Brahimi author

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. author

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

— Joyce Brothers author

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

— Dan Brown author

I'd like the reader to decide if he is willing to pay minute sums for content. I'd like the economics of web to be controlled between authors and readers, not advertiser.

— Robert Cailliau author

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

— Cass Canfield author

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War.

— Dennis Cardoza author

I really rebel against authority.

— Mariah Carey author

There's a rumour going 'round that if you amass a certain number of penalty points on your driving licence, the authorities will make you take your test again! Now, if ever there was an incentive to drive carefully, they could not have threatened a more terrifying ordeal.

— Jasper Carrott author

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

— Nancy Cartwright author

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

— Eleanor Catton author

Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

— Lee Child author

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

— Joe Chung author

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

— Frank A. Clark author

I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and then come back to the Congress for the authority to go to force.

— Wesley Clark author

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.

— Yvette Clarke author

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

— Stephen Colbert author

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

— Misha Collins author

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

— Roman Coppola author

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

— Robert Creeley author

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

— Hume Cronyn author

I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding.

— Neil Cross author

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

— Isaac DIsraeli author

I think Judy Blume, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz are the three authors responsible for my being where I am today. I owe them a lot.

— James Dashner author

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

— Elmer Davis author

Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.

— Junot Diaz author

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.

— Stephen R. Donaldson author

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

— Byron Dorgan author

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

— William O. Douglas author

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

— Euripides author

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

— John Engler author

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

— Edward Everett author

I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop them. It didn't worry me.

— Albert Finney author

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

— John T. Flynn author

Point-of-view is a matter that readers rarely pay attention to, yet it's one of the most important story decisions an author makes.

— Therese Fowler author

When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning, it occurred to me I didn't know what it was, so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.

— Lisa Gardner author

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

— John White Geary author

After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.

— Jim Gerlach author

I'm still surprised to be an author. I wonder what I'll write next?

— Mordicai Gerstein author

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

— Ben Goldacre author

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

— Matt Gonzalez author

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

— Nadine Gordimer author

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky author

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

— Greg Graffin author

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

— Matthew Green author

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

— Mike Greenberg author

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

— Lee Greenwood author

Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

— Bear Grylls author

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

— Ruud Gullit author

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

— David Guterson author

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton author

I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.

— Shane Harper author

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

— W. Averell Harriman author

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

— Gustav Heinemann author

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

— Arthur Helps author

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

— Ken Hill author

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.

— Tony Hillerman author

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

— Charles Hodge author

All I did was ask for rights. I didnt attack anyone. I didnt harass anyone. I didnt oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, Why cant I drive?

— Manal Alsharif author

I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.

— Hassan Rouhani author

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats what makes theatre live. Thats why it persists.

— Stephen Sondheim author

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

— Zadie Smith author

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram author

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