#author

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#authority #deal #get #going #negotiated

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #authorized #certain #certain kinds #could

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#author #come #easier #every #feel

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them. ↗

— George Mikes

#conversation #course #educated people #england #greek

I've always had trouble with authority. ↗

— John Milius

#authority #had #i #trouble

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#certainly #diverse #find #game #life

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

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