Top 73 Don't Obey Quotes
#1. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#2. Raysel, you told me yourself that your father wasn't my liege anymore. I don't have to obey his wishes, spoken or unspoken, and so I can finally say this: go drown yourself, you self-righteous little bitch.
Seanan McGuire
#3. Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
Donald Rumsfeld
#4. Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.
Mark Twain
#5. We always get into trouble when we doubt God's love, because when we don't trust him, we don't obey him.
Rick Warren
#6. Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'
Tommy Chong
#7. Maybe I'll obey the rules. Some of them, anyway, who knows? What are you going to do if I don't, by the way, and haven't I asked you this before?
Anne Rice
#8. Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions ... You follow and obey.
Bai Ling
#9. Remind yourself that in this night you will face many challenges. But you have to face them and understand it 100 percent ... Obey God, his messenger, and don't fight among yourself where you become weak, and stand fast, God will stand with those who stood fast.
Mohamed Atta
#10. Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.
Benjamin Watson
#12. She's the princess. She commanded and I obeyed!"-Loki
"You don't obey a suicide mission!"-Finn
Amanda Hocking
#13. When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.
Neil Cole
#14. When we choose to obey God and give our bodies to our husbands - even if we don't feel like it - God will reward us with pleasure.
Carolyn Mahaney
#15. Don't trust thoughts because you think them, but because they obey specific trustworthy rules.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#16. One: Make Congress and the White House obey the same Obamacare rules you do. Two: Obama let business off for a year; we want workers to be let off for a year too. That's the GOP plan. What part don't you like?
David Gelernter
#17. You don't need to understand. You need only to obey and then reap the blessings of that obedience.
Jim George
#18. The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.
John Taylor Gatto
#19. Birds don't build nests on fruitless trees, whores have no love for poor men, and citizens don't obey a powerless king!
Ashwin Sanghi
#20. You don't obey your way into faith (the Pharisees proved that); you believe your way into obedience.
Bob Sorge
#21. We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.
John Bevere
#22. Not that the study is not important. A Jewish rabbi I once studies with would often say, 'For us Jews studying the bible is more important than obeying it because if you don't understand it rightly you will obey it wrongly and your obedience will be disobedience.
This is also true.
Eugene H. Peterson
#23. The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God ... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
Hakeem Olajuwon
#24. I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law
John Pinette
#25. What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.
Alexander Berkman
#26. Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explained or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.
Charles R. Swindoll
#27. You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
Dallas Willard
#28. Listen to your fear but don't obey it.
Seth Godin
#29. Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"
John Andreas Widtsoe
#30. Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
Cullen Hightower
#31. For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#32. I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.
Max Brooks
#33. I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract.
Katharine Hepburn
#34. Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.
Gwyneth Lewis
#35. And that's what trust is. We don't just trust people to obey the rules, we also trust that they know when to break them.
Simon Sinek
#36. Don't obey if your heart tells you the order is wrong.
Roselyne Bosch
#37. If I worship the fact that I don't worship anything, amongst other things what I'm worshipping is denial.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. This is what should be meant by people power. The power for people to choose which of the government's petty, silly, pointless laws they want to obey. And which they don't.
Jeremy Clarkson
#39. I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.
Geoffrey Wood
#40. No, Simi. No food. (Acheron)
No, Simi. No food. The Simi don't like this, akri. Katoteros is boring. There's nothing fun there. Only old dead people who want to come back here. Bleh! (Simi)
Simi ... (Acheron)
I hear and obey, akri. The Simi just never said she would do so quietly. (Simi)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.
Dallas Willard
#42. Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you!
I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Don't reason in the mind just obey in the spirit.
Joyce Meyer
#44. You have to make doubt and devils obey you. Don't ever treat the devil nice. Treat him mean and tell him what to do.
Roberts Liardon
#45. Oh judge! Your damn laws! The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them.
Ammon Hennacy
#46. Dratted women," the colonel muttered, tossing down his napkin and bolting out of his chair. "They don't know how to listen. They don't know how to obey. If the army were made up of them, we'd all be British subjects." Caleb
Linda Lael Miller
#47. Have at it. She seems to obey you."
"I don't obey! He's an alpha! It's just that I don't have any choice!" Dusty shouted to her back.
Kristen Ashley
#48. We tend to teach mathematics as a long list of rules.You learn them in order and you have to obey them, because if you don't obey them you get a C-.This is not mathematics. Mathematics is the study if things that come out a certain way because there is no other way they could possibly be.
Jordan Ellenberg
#49. You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.
Dave Obey
#50. Callie stared at Daniel. "Bastard!" she hissed. He smiled serenely. His grip was still upon her and he pulled her close, whispering. "The bastard you are about to promise to love, honor, and obey." "I don't love you." "I'm merely shooting for two out of three, and the last two will do nicely.
Heather Graham
#51. People who love each other don't bargain. Love has no such thing as business. Love has no conditions, because love does not obey time and space.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#52. If God makes you wander, keep calm, don't worry and go by His rules for He will surely show you what will make you wonder!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. Don't obey God to get things. Obey God to get God. He is your shield and your very great reward.
Mike Pilavachi
#54. What you don't know, boy, is that people have feelings that don't obey logic ... Once you know true love, how could you settle for anything less?
Miyuki Miyabe
#55. With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
John McGraw
#56. You cannot control faeries. Can. Not. They aren't logical or rational. They don't obey the same laws (physical, social, emotional, traffic - you name it) that we do.
Kiersten White
#57. We listen, we praise, we walk in the direction of God's voice, and we obey. It's that simple. Sometimes that means we get to unbind and celebrate. Sometimes it means we don't.
Angie Smith
#58. We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.
Nadege Richards
#59. When men don't have God, they need substitutes. To my way of thinking, whiskey is a poor substitute - but many men depend upon it. But what I am angry about is that they didn't obey my orders.
Janette Oke
#60. If security guards aren't allowed to carry guns, I don't have to obey their made up rules.
Daniel Tosh
#61. If you don't know your maker, you may travel miles to find your true self to no avail. Your maker knows you; to know yourself, know your maker!
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
Dallas Willard
#63. We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.
Dave Obey
#64. Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#65. Stubborn' just means you don't want to do something somebody else wants you to do, and 'annoying' just means somebody else is frustrated that you won't obey them.
Orson Scott Card
#66. If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
Oswald Chambers
#67. Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.
Pope Francis
#68. I don't want my children to obey only because they fear consequences or worry that Mom will lose it. I want to know their hearts understand and grasp the joy to be found in doing the right thing. This requires parenting through the daily grind with a long-term mentality.
Courtney Defeo
#69. We're no longer slaves to fear. That doesn't mean we're emotionless now, or never face fear, it just means we don't have to obey it.
Jeremy Riddle
#70. There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don't like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. Even today you don't know what opportunities I will be bringing your way. But do know you can count on Me for the words - words that will flow out of an obedient heart. There's no need to worry about the right words as long as your heart is aligned with Mine. You obey, and I
Judy Gordon Morrow
#72. If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.
Dave Obey
#73. Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.
Craig Groeschel
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