Quotes About Obeying Orders

#1. The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

H.G.Wells

#2. Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time I did not know where I was or what I was doing except that I was obeying orders and trying not to be killed in any of the variety of horrible ways open to me.

Robertson Davies

#3. Her entire life was obeying orders. She'd left her Father behind, only to fall into the hands of another dictator. Was her life her own anymore, or was she a puppet on a string, dancing to Ryan's tune?

Callie Hunter

#4. It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders." "Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilizationally.

Iain M. Banks

#5. Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Ilsa J. Bick

#6. Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn't as good.

Alistair Cross

#7. You gave up on me," I said a bit more loudly. "You were my friend. And you picked him - picked obeying him, even when you saw what his orders and his rules did to me. Even when you saw me wasting away day by day." "You

Sarah J. Maas

#8. You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. If I'm home, I'll be happy. And if I'm around family, and if I'm working on projects with friends, I don't know what else I'd want to be doing.

Howard Warren Buffett

#10. The job of a leader today is not to create followers. It's to create more leaders.

Ralph Nader

#11. Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

Jasper Fforde

#12. Jose loved giving orders to the servants, and they loved obeying her. She always made them feel they were taking part in some drama.

Katherine Mansfield

#13. If you're not happy before you're successful, you're going to be miserable when you do become successful because all your problems just get magnified.

Sinbad

#14. We are the most disgusting and obnoxious creatures; we can't succeed, and we won't let others too.

M.F. Moonzajer

#15. To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one had either rejected or been rejected by these same bedroom companions.

Alain De Botton

#16. Is it better, financially, to go to the physics department than the philosophy department?" Tsukuru asked. "When it comes to their graduates not earning anything, they're about even. Unless you win the Nobel Prize or something," Haida said, flashing his usual winning smile.

Haruki Murakami

#17. Just go along with things and let your mind move freely. Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you - this is best. What more do you have to do to fulfill your mission? Nothing is as good as following orders (obeying fate) - that's how difficult it is!

Burton Watson

#18. I have many favorite vacation destinations, but my favorite destination is Maui.

Bobby Lee

#19. People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.

Marion D. Hanks

#20. I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.

Brenda Joyce

#21. If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

Oswald Chambers

#22. Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

Theodore Dalrymple

#23. It's hard to tell how far women's individuality has come in the past twenty years.

Annie Lennox