Quotes About Adherence

They replied that their only advice was that they were willing to do as he commanded. Magellan .

Rules existed for a reason: if you followed them, you would succeed;

She had been brought up to follow rules, to believe that the proper functioning of the world depended upon her compliance, and follow them—and believe—she did.

Adherence to principles, and adherence to the individual, combine to make the Rebel Army an indivisible fist.

Kids are the most conventional people in the world. It is more important than anything else for them to conform, and I was a kind of oddball. I was driven into being independent. I was very, very unhappy.

Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

The United States expects a lot of its partners and allies, including joint patrolling, significant contributions to armed conflicts, and a strict adherence to human rights, among other things.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

I didn't play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me 'grandma' in college.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was? I can quit right now, if that's so.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

I like the rules; following them proves to me that I'm a civilized man.

Time to paint your but white and run with antelope-in English- Stop arguing and do as your told.

Allison was a born conformer, a person who believed in doing the "right thing," being responsible, not making too many waves.

Unser Leben ist eingeengt von zahllosen Gewohnheiten, an die man sich halten muss, wenn man zur Horde gehören will.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.