Quotes About Obedience

Blend in. don't make waves. Don't look up.' That was the mantra I lived by. But not today.

When did I become the enemy here? I have only ever done what the old man wanted me to do." She spoke like those words were being physically torn out of her. "Do you have any idea what that's cost me?

Most people thought that training animals was about obedience and control. But in reality, the center of any search and rescue training program was play. For the dog, searching was a game. Animals who had a strong play drive would keep playing indefinitely—through ice and snow, over hard terrain, for hours upon hours—until the game was won. Until they found their target.

A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.

Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.

But the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you should be doing. It's about God and what He has done.

One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE

Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and I accuse the second court-martial of having, in obedience to orders, covered this illegality by committing in its turn the judicial crime of knowingly acquitting a guilty person.

La educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues se propone por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión.

You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.'' 'Frances pulled his hair heartily;

He tears down my handiwork, boxes my ears, and croaks: ' ''T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath nut oe'red, und t' sahnd uh't gospel still i' yer lugs, and yah darr be laiking! shame on ye! sit ye dahn, ill childer! they's good books enough if ye'll read 'em; sit ye dahn, and think uh yer sowls!

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

It is still possible, after all, to forge a covenant that binds us not to God in obedience but to one another in mercy. We need only choose, this year, to keep the flame lit...

You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it

The girl remembered London as a place of infinite freedom. Now it seemed she'd rented out her whole life to the Joneses in advance. Service had reduced her to a child, put her under orders to get up and lie down at someone else's whim; her days were spent obeying someone else's rules, working for someone else's profit. Nothing was Mary's anymore. Not even her time was hers to waste.

The State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public, monotonous, obedient, colorless, spiritless, moving humbly like a flock of sheep along a straight high road between two walls.

The awful waste that patriotism necessitates ought to be sufficient to cure the man of even average intelligence from this disease. Yet patriotism demands still more. The people are urged to be patriotic and for that luxury they pay, not only by supporting their defenders, but even by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegiance to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

El poder de los jefes reside en la tristeza de los disciplinados.

I don't mind taking orders from them as has the right to give them, she said, but take orders from that ridiculous bird I will not.

The little boys did as they were told, eager to please their deranged brother. Ici, garcon , they chorused, pudgy fingers raised. And then from the corner of his mouth, Myles whispered to his twin, Artemis simple-toon.

One: listen to your commander—he is always right. Two: ignore all hunches, unless suggested by your commander, who is always right. Three: if in doubt, call your commander. The one who is always right.

Ga Artemis redden. Dat is het allerlaatste bevel dat je van me krijgt, kapitein. En waag het niet dat in de wind te slaan. - Root

Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly