Quotes About Adherence

As creatures, you and I are responsible to obey the Creator.

I'm the kind of person who always follows the manual. No shortcuts.

necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

Rather than bring the full force of our creativity and rationality to bear on the problems of ethics, social cohesion, and even spiritual experience, moderates merely ask that we relax our standard of adherence to ancient superstitions and taboos, while otherwise maintaining a belief system that was passed down to us from men and women whose lives were simply ravaged by their basic ignorance about the world.

If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.

Certain beliefs place their adherents beyond the reach of every peaceful means of persuasion, while inspiring them to commit acts of extraordinary violence against others. There is, in fact, no talking to some people. If they cannot be captured, and they often cannot, otherwise tolerant people may be justified in killing them in self-defense.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.

A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not.

Unity and respect, it seemed, were only for those who did as they were told.

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

Certainty is the belief and adherence to a point of view, often accompanied by vehement argument. Clarity is being able to see and learn more of what is really going on, the full spectrum of dimensions that emerge as critically important as events unfold.1 We add that seeing with more clarity and abandoning certainty are benefits of a Humble Inquiry attitude.

And this is law, I will maintain,Unto my dying day, sir,That whatsoever king shall reign,I'll still be the Vicar of Bray, sir!

Il ne faut pas être plus royaliste que le roi [One must not be more royalist than the king].

To be properly wicked, you do not have to break the Law. Just observe it to the letter.

If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

I've changed, and I've learned every single year what to do and what not to do. But I still pride myself on going out and doing the right things. Doing what I'm supposed to be doing on both ends of the floor.

As an avid shooter remember to shoot responsibly and follow the rules.

I am a rule follower. I think rules are there for a reason. I don't like breaking them.