Authorative Quotes & Sayings

One of the chief purposes of emotions is to give us values, so we can decide what is important, what is expensive, what is pretty, and what is precious. — Anonymous

And, just for good measure, here are a handful of runners up:
For now the seventh summer carries you,
A wanderer, across the lands and waters. — Virgil

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky

One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries — A.A. Milne

The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all. — Oscar Wilde

None of us have much idea where we are. Perhaps all our lives are too concerned with where, and not enough with who. — Catherine Fisher

Both of us hope and trust that our daughters, whether married or single, will be the pride and comfort of our lives. — Louisa May Alcott

who says dog means dog? — Andrew Clements

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. — Dan Harmon

I looked around at the smoke and people. I couldn't find any hate in me anywhere. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up. I decided to love it anyway. — Vanessa Veselka

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano. — Arthur Rubinstein

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life. — Yves Behar

Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative. — Michelle Sagara West

He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again. — Michael Chabon

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another ... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth. — Anne Hutchinson