Quotes About Compliance

Me naiset emme voi lähteä seikkailemaan - etsimään luoteisväylää tai Niilin lähteitä, tai itään metsästämään tiikereitä. Meidän täytyy pysyä siellä missä kasvamme, tai minne puutarhurit meidät haluavat siirtää. Meidät kasvatetaan kuin kukat: näytämme niin sieviltä kuin voimme, emmekä valita, vaikka pitkästyisimme. (Daniel Deronda s. 152-153)

Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won't keep shape

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

I'm such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

Throughout high school, I was fairly boring. I didn't do many rebellious things.

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.

If you don't want a speeding ticket, don't speed.

Every sandwich I sold, the city got more sales tax, the state got more. But they came in and they would want to give me a ticket because I have a sign outside trying to get more business, right?

I think in China they have a camera for every street corner, and if you jaywalk, they don't give you a ticket. They put you on the big TV screen to shame you.

To get along, go along.

The narcissist flaunts his charitable nature as a bait. He impresses others with his selflessness and kindness and thus lures them into his lair, entraps them, and manipulates and brainwashes them into subservient compliance and obsequious collaboration. People are attracted to the narcissist's larger than life posture – only to discover his true personality traits when it is far too late. "Give a little to take a lot" – is the narcissist's creed.

I feel like a marionette - like someone else is pulling the strings and I have no choice but to comply.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best known

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.

Do as I tell you,' shouted Annabelle, 'or I shall pinch you and pinch you until you are black and blue.

No loitering. Anyone caught loitering will be subject to the predicate is loitering.

when people tell you what to do it is usually confusing and does not make sense. For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.

For example, people often say "Be quiet," but they don't tell you how long to be quiet for. Or you see a sign which says KEEP OFF THE GRASS but it should say KEEP OFF THE GRASS AROUND THIS SIGN or KEEP OFF ALL THE GRASS IN THIS PARK because there is lots of grass you are allowed to walk on.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie