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Quotes About Compliance

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it's going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it's 6. Done!
~ Sunil Chhetri
He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.
~ Heidi Tankersley, The Mod Code
I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
~ Anne Sullivan
When your heart is broken, it's easier to follow rules
~ Betsy Cornwell, Mechanica
You can rigidly enforce only those laws that most people believe to be good laws, that is, laws that proscribe actions that they would avoid even in the absence of laws.
~ Milton Friedman
In part because there are so many laws to break; and the more laws there are to break, the harder it is to prevent them from being broken
~ Milton Friedman
It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK? ( Getting Control of the Frontier , Gainsville Sun, March 22, 1995)
~ Molly Ivins
To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.
~ Montaigne
To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne
~ Montaigne
A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.
~ Naipaul V.S.
Our goal in raising you was not that you'd be happy, but that you'd behave. You've
~ Nancy C. Anderson
If you will pardon my saying so, Tharkay said, you will never satisfy them on that point: the last thing you or Temeraire will ever give anyone is quiet obedience. Have you considered it might be better not to try?
~ Naomi Novik
Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it.
~ Naomi Novik
In California, hiking trails, state parks, and beaches were closed off, with a "regional stay-at-home order" that would not lift until January 2021; for millions, the miles of open, windswept beaches were inaccessible.47 As in a communist regime, people were told what they could and could not buy, and where they could and could not go, and indeed how close they were permitted to be to one another. Scared and confused, they complied.
~ Naomi Wolf
Failure to read and comply with pertinent material. Your
~ Napoleon Hill
Mandatory, and soon despised, dancing sessions were implemented under this same improving philosophy.
~ Caroline Alexander
I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.
~ Heidi Klum
While most kids turned their heads in disgust as a plateful of broccoli landed before them, I ate what I was given. My mum would harp on about how 'life is not a cafe' - I still hear that mantra in my sleep.
~ John Whaite
I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.
~ Kirstjen Nielsen
Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else.
~ Bobby Jindal
The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
~ Ann Macbeth
While the middle class is bled dry to meet various the expenditure of a bloated government machinery, every revenue collection agency is busy extorting money instead of ensuring compliance.
~ Sucheta Dalal
When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.
~ Marouane Fellaini
Whatever Milan tell me to do, I will do.
~ Filippo Inzaghi