Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!
Home - Quote Topics - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Author Nationalities Authors:    A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z
Web brainyquote.com

Definition of Authoritative

Authoritative Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. Related Definitions: Acceptance, Air, An, As, Authoritative, Authority, Commanding, Credit, Determinate, Dictatorial, Due, Entitled, From, Having, Obedience, Of, Or, Peremptory, Positive, Proceeding, To, Tone

Authoritative Quotations 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 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 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 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 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

Authoritative Translations authoritative in German is herrisch, gebieterisch authoritative in Italian is imperioso authoritative in Latin is professorius authoritative in Spanish is con autoridad authoritative in Swedish is officiella

Your Favorite Authors
Abraham Lincoln Albert Einstein Alexander Hamilton Andy Warhol Aristotle Barack Obama Benjamin Franklin Bob Dylan Bob Hope Buddha C. S. Lewis Dalai Lama Dwight D. Eisenhower Friedrich Nietzsche George Bernard Shaw George Washington	Harold S. Geneen Henry David Thoreau John F. Kennedy Leo Tolstoy Leonardo da Vinci Lord Byron Lou Holtz Malcolm Forbes Mark Twain Martin Luther King, Jr. Maya Angelou Mike Myers Mohandas Gandhi Mother Teresa Muhammad Ali Nelson Mandela	Noel Redding Oscar Wilde Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Bach Rita Rudner Robert Orben Ronald Reagan Samuel Adams Scott Adams Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Tom Stoppard Vince Lombardi Warren Buffett William Shakespeare Winston Churchill

Quotes    RSS Feeds        Copyright 2008 BrainyMedia.com	About Us Inquire Privacy Terms Copyright