Auctoritate Quotes & Sayings

My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking. — Gordon Ramsay

The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God. — Roderick Murchison

I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time. — Jo Nesbo

No one enjoys being away from friends and family. — Roger Glover

Bertrand Russell claimed that "at least half the sins of mankind" were caused by the fear of boredom. — Warren W. Wiersbe

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings? — Samuel Johnson

Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications. — Tana French

There is no problem too large that God can't handle," Mamm assured. "Besides, God showed me a wonderful verse from His Word. Romans chapter eight verse twenty-eight: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. — J.E.B. Spredemann

I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. — Christopher Hitchens

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible. — Daniel Tammet

Locus ab auctoritate est infirmissimus. [The argument from authority is the weakest.] — Thomas Aquinas

For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience. — Lisa Edelstein