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Quotes About Compliance

Shut up, sit down, and read. (Tory) Please? (Acheron) You need something? (Tory) You to be polite to me, Ms. I Own The World- Now Do What I Say You Pathetic Pleb. (Acheron) You don't strike me as the kind of guy who takes orders anyway. (Tory) Yes, but a simple please goes a long way. I'm the one doing you a favor here. (Acheron) Fine. Please sit down, shut up, and read. (Tory)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Shut up, Nick. (Talon) 'Shut up, Nick, heel, sit, fetch.' Love you too, Celt. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.' Yeah, I'll fetch those slippers and stick them someplace real uncomfortable. I swear, my mother should have named me Fido. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you, Kibbles, had better lay off me. One more growl and I swear I'm going to geld you with a spoon. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I'd oblige you. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm going to go out there and wait until you two are dressed. (Tiernan) Why don't you keep walking until you get to the other side of the front door? (Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
In your daytime life you have to be more strict.
~ Eddy de Clercq
Sit down, Will. There's a good fellow," he said. "Yes, sir," replied Will, and Halt's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "He's never called me sir," he said. "Probably trying to get on my good side," Crowley replied. Halt nodded savagely. "Probably.
~ John Flanagan
Weet je, volgens mij gaat het je nog lukken ook.' Hij keek naar Stig en Hal. 'Een pittige tante, dat zei ik toch al?' Lydia bloosde, en de beide jongens glimlachten. 'Hou je mond,' zei ze. 'Doe jij nou maar wat jou gevraagd wordt met die twee rare soepborden die jij schilden noemt.' Thorn boog zijn hoofd heel even. 'Zoals u wilt, jongedame. Zoals u wilt.
~ John Flanagan
Klein, karakterloos kwezeltje dat je bent,' zei ze op strenge toon. 'Kom uit je bed en trek je schoenen aan, anders snij ik je oren van je kop.
~ John Flanagan
Will nodded. "Good for him.
~ John Flanagan
Gelukkig is het niet verplicht.' Gilan deed alsof hij even nadacht. 'Ik zou het verplicht kunnen máken.' Ze glimlachte allerliefst naar hem. 'Ja, dan kan ik eindelijk eens een opdracht aan mijn laars lappen.
~ John Flanagan
They drum that into you: discipline trumps courage. In a fight, the people who win are the ones who do what they're told. It's not like it is in films. Don't be brave, just do what you're told.
~ John Lanchester
submission to government be every one's duty
~ John Locke
nobody can be under a law which is not promulgated to him;
~ John Locke
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
~ John Mayer
Our compliance is our choice. No one can control someone else (unless the person being controlled allows it). No one controls you—unless you allow that control. Sure, she can put the screws to your head, but ultimately what you do within the circumstances of your life is dependent on what you allow and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have things your own way or to win approval.
~ Elizabeth B. Brown
She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.
~ Elizabeth Cadell
Sólo se trataba de cumplir las reglas —dice mientras cierra el armario—. La vida te sitúa ante ellas. Se asumen, se cumplen, y punto... Sin grandes gestos. Sin dramatismos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.
~ attributed
A big day for the bootlickers to please the boss by going around to bow to him and shamelessly have a ball.
~ Awakening Beaconing
A woman who is baarri is like a pious slave. She honors her husband's family and feeds them without question or complaint. She never whines or makes demands of any kind. She is strong in service, but her head is bowed. If her husband is cruel, if he rapes her and then taunts her about it, if he decides to take another wife, or beats her, she lowers her gaze and hides her tears. And she works hard, faultlessly. She is a devoted, welcoming, well-trained work animal. This is baarri. If
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.
~ Azar Nafisi