She Who Must Be Obeyed Quotes

#1. She who must be obeyed, by Horace Rumpole character

John Mortimer

#2. I like to be in control. I like to call the shots. I like to be obeyed unconditionally. And almost all of the girls who make it beyond the first appointment do that, and do it well.

J.A. Huss

#3. What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. The gospel is a message of peace. Christianity is a system which, received and obeyed, would spread peace, harmony, and happiness throughout the earth.

Ellen G. White

#5. I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Gustav Mahler

#6. In spite of her small vanities, Margaret had a sweet and pious nature, which unconsciously influenced her sisters, especially Jo, who loved her very tenderly, and obeyed her because her advice was so gently given.

Louisa May Alcott

#7. A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Matt Groening

#8. I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

Janet Jackson

#9. If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.

George Q. Cannon

#10. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)

Leonard Ravenhill

#11. At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit ... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. The only Commandment I ever obeyed - 'Consider the Lilies.

Emily Dickinson

#13. Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.

Giambattista Basile

#14. I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette.

Jim C. Hines

#15. More and more often these days days, though, Holly found herself thinking that perhaps what God wanted was not to be feared or obeyed or even to be worshiped -
but maybe God just wanted to be wondered about.

Sarah Dunn

#16. There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

Wallace D. Wattles

#17. And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

H. Rider Haggard

#18. She sits on the iron throne
She is one and three
The dark lady
the redgold lady
The blank lady
oracle
of blood, she who must be
obeyed
forever
Her glass wings are gone
She floats down the river
singing her last song

Margaret Atwood

#19. The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

#20. You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

Vance Havner

#21. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

#22. As an addict who will read anything, I obeyed, but I am not saved, and return to tell you neither what to read nor how to read it, only what I have read and think worthy of rereading, which may be the only pragmatic test for the canonical.

Harold Bloom

#23. I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed, it comes nearest to the Christian religion, in its moral effects and influence, of any institution with which I am acquainted.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

Louis Farrakhan

#25. The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected.

Algernon Blackwood

#26. Oh, Brethren, what is the result of pride? Oh, see what humility can do? What was the need for all these sufferings? For, if from the beginning Man had humbled himself, obeyed God, and kept the commandment he would not have fallen.

Dorotheus Of Gaza

#27. I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.

Linda Kage

#28. Obey God in the things he shows you, and instantly the next thing is opened up. God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already ... this chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with God.

Oswald Chambers

#29. Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Pope Benedict XVI

#30. Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

C.S. Lewis

#31. Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#33. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial lite. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of times he obeyed.

Jack London

#34. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

#35. It was a strategy as old as time. Make people desperate enough and they obeyed.

Debra Webb

#36. Some commands are more easily given than obeyed.

George R R Martin