when it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up

We’re pleased with today’s ruling because it clarifies decisively the limits of local authority when it comes to the provision of high-speed Internet access over cable.

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, … Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port...

Those who are responsible should be hunted down by the Palestinian police. The Palestinian Authority will have no tolerance for such actions.

No authority is higher than reality.

The Coast Guard and [the Customs Service] have the authority from a law enforcement perspective, and they have the assets?the guns and the boats?to ensure security at our ports.

With authority, we can say they came from those countries,

This ruling upholds California’s authority to enforce tough restrictions on handing out free cigarettes, particularly in places where children are present.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

Let me be me, or let me be.

‘Referring the matter to a committee’ can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.

We have made clear that we believe that we already have the authority for a military strike, should such an option be chosen.

Until the movement issues are resolved however, and the PA ( Palestinian Authority ) is able to provide stable governance and to reassert civil control, we will be hard-pressed to convince governments or investors that...

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Morals; the pathetic answer to authoritySeen two gorillas sharing a banana?

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary...

As long as it’s laying dormant, there are no disturbed fibers loose in the air, we don’t have any authority over it,

The Palestinian Authority managed to prevent any confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis as the settlers were leaving and this is an indication that the police can do their job,

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

There is no higher authority.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had...

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

Don’t listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an “assumed” category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows.

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it...

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally...

When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of...

We know from accounts of Rilke’s life that his stay in Rodin’s workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet’s view of the mutilated body thus...

She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of...

But it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.””It might to keep it open.

And so, it does beg the question: Do you need that kind of authority (for active-duty troops)? And that’s going to have to be part of the long discussion,

meeting … called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after...

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies...

It won’t be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply...

I guess it wouldn’t discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers...

It is time to impose the authority of law and order. These events … harm our international credibility and strengthen Israel ‘s pretext to undermine peace and stop withdrawals.