Being Obeyed Quotes

#1. If a general shows confidence in his men but always insists on his orders being obeyed, the gain will be mutual.

Sun Tzu

#2. Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.

Francis Bacon

#3. That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

Ben Kingsley

#4. The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. I want you so much. Tell me you want me. Say yes.

Jeaniene Frost

#6. So in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being known how to touch it. That being is not selected but recognized and obeyed.

George Santayana

#7. By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. That as individuals each of us is extremely isolated, while at the same time we are all linked by a prototypical memory.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Write like you talk. Often.

Seth Godin

#10. Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.

Walter Benjamin

#11. Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

Democritus

#12. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#13. I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

Rachel Bilson