Depute Quotes & Sayings

As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country, it is impossible that the whole should assemble to make laws. The first necessary step, then, is to depute power from the many to a few of the most wise and good. — John Adams

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver. — Laurence J. Peter

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. — Anthony Trollope

I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music. — Tinashe

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing. — Elliott Erwitt

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being? — Margaret Atwood

It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist's innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself. — Anthony Burgess

I'd love to do acting, but it'd definitely have to be comedy. I can't do serious. It's completely beyond me. — Allan Carr

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends. — F Scott Fitzgerald

And human society will continue, in various times and places, to degenerate into a murderous horde, even if it remains so civilized as to depute the legal, political, and military machineries of the state to do its murdering for it. In such a world, Christians have no choice but to continue to believe in the power of the gospel to transform the human will from an engine of cruelty, sentimentality, and selfishness into a vessel of divine grace, capable of union with God and love of one's neighbor. — David Bentley Hart

Why can't I go out?" "You've just come in." "But it's a sunny day." "You need a nap." "I'm not tired." "You will be later." "I'll sleep then." "But you'll be grumpy all afternoon if you don't nap now." "No, I won't." "Yes, you will. — Erin Hunter

Was - there was already a lot of activity — Robyn Carr

Wrestling is the ultimate martial art. — Mark Schultz