Top 35 Authoritative Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Authoritative Quotes from famous people such as Patrick Ness, Dee Dee Myers, Jacob Rees-Mogg, David Novak, Marie Rutkoski, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That’s what I want as a reader – I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
Patrick Ness
I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
Dee Dee Myers
The Catholic Church’s teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion – that it is wrong.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian revelation, even if these public norms are consistent with a particular community’s revelation and the authoritative teachings it derives from that revelation.
David Novak
Any consideration of the story we call ‘Cinderella’ for simplicity’s sake must acknowledge that ‘Cinderella’ has had a dizzying array of personae over hundreds of years, in several cultures. There is no one authoritative tale of ‘Cinderella,’ only a hall of mirrors with a different face in each reflection.
Marie Rutkoski
I think children learn from example. I don’t believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
Kent McCord
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
John Bercow
Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject – basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. – so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.
Jack Dangermond
The NFL is one of the first places where many star players finally see discipline. Finally have an authoritative male figure: Buck stops here, I make all the calls, you will not get an opinion.
Colin Cowherd
And in real life, I’m actually quite authoritative and strict.
Alex Horne
Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
Howard Rheingold
I’d rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.
Solange Knowles
It is urgent to shift from a traditional, authoritative, rote educational approach to a project-based and experiential approach. Specific hard skills are fundamental, but is even more important that students ‘learn how to learn’ and focus on crucial soft skills such as flexibility and the ability to adapt to change.
Alain Dehaze
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
Jonathan Dimbleby
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.
Gianfranco Zola
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative tones.
Steven Weber
There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
Jack Dangermond
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.
John L. Lewis
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products – fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they’re relatively undifferentiated.
Tim O’Reilly
I would have loved to do a film like ‘Piku’ or ‘Neerja.’ But I never got a role where a woman played an authoritative role. In my time, the hero and the villain were both men. The heroine was only the victim.
Sharmila Tagore
Just like Tim Robbins is very political – and obviously, Arnold Schwarzenegger must be – I want to be able to have this public personality that’s considered authoritative.
Christy Romano
I have a great sense of humour. I am teasing, taunting and authoritative.
Suhasini Maniratnam
Secular intellectuals may wax eloquent about ‘true Islam’ being humane and peaceful, on TV programmes, but it is clear that they have not read any authoritative translations of the Koran, the Sira, and the Hadith.
Subramanian Swamy
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.
Junot Diaz
If you’re trying to learn how to collect art, the key is getting access to insider opinions, and we pride ourselves on working with the most relevant artists and the collectors with the most authoritative voices.
Alexander Gilkes
I feel more comfortable being confrontational and authoritative. It’s important for women in this business.
Banks
Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn’t think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.
Gia Coppola
It’s very nice to be able to write something you don’t have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
Brian Lamb
Again, we saw in Bosnia – we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don’t have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.
Peter T. King
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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
Anna Garlin Spencer
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
Barbara Walters
Studio heads seem to be getting the message that there is not only an audience out there, but there is a desire for people to see people of colour in central roles and in authoritative roles.
David Harewood
Acknowledgement and recognition from authoritative quarters are important to every artiste.
Sridevi