Famous quotes containing the words authority and/or figure:
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey’s gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)