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Quotes About Obeyed

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
~ Martin Van Buren
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.
~ Helen Keller
Where Christ's laws are written in the heart, there all other good laws are best obeyed. None despise man's law but those that despise Christ's first.
~ Richard Sibbes
he was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
obeyed. He led them out an unglazed window and into a narrow gap between the coach house and the wall of a nearby
~ Jo Beverley
Syntax, like government, can only be obeyed. It is therefore of no use except when you have something particular to command such as: Go buy me a bunch of carrots.
~ John Cage
She sits on the iron throne She is one and three The dark lady the redgold lady The blank lady oracle of blood, she who must be obeyed forever Her glass wings are gone She floats down the river singing her last song
~ Margaret Atwood
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
From the first extortion he had accepted, from the first directive he had obeyed, he had given them cause to believe that reality was a thing to be cheated, that one could demand the irrational and someone somehow would provide it.
~ Ayn Rand
Just as Amy took the credit for making me my best self, I had to take the blame for bringing the madness to bloom in Amy. There were a million men who would have loved, honored, and obeyed Amy and considered themselves lucky to do so. Confident, self-assured, real men who wouldn't have forced her to pretend to be anything but her own perfect, rigid, demanding, brilliant, creative, fascinating, rapacious, megalomaniac self.
~ Gillian Flynn
What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?
~ Bernhard Schlink
... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.
~ George Santayana
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
~ Joseph Smith Jr.
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
~ Francis Bacon
Trump having the ability to trick a mob of rubes into storming the Capitol wasn't a reason to stop enabling him, it was more evidence that his mob must be obeyed.
~ Tim Miller
I don't fear anyone, Russians, Americans, any of them. I did a job. I obeyed orders. I am a soldier." Kurst shoved me away. "You know, you may just manage to cheat the hangman with that kind of logic. But I hope to God you don't.
~ Gerald Green
I don't fear anyone, Russians, Americans, any of them. I did a job. I obeyed orders. I am a soldier." Kurt shoved me away. "You know, you may just manage to cheat the hangman with that kind of logic. But I hope to God you don't.
~ Gerald Green
would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?
~ Gloria Steinem
Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.
~ Virginia Woolf
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
~ Henry Adams
Ruling human beings does not belong among those tasks that are impossible if one does it with knowledge, we know that Cyrus at any rate was willingly obeyed as an exceptional ruler, Cyrus was worthy of wonder and excelled in ruling human beings.
~ Xenophon
I'll leave you here to finish your, er…conversation." As he withdrew from the room, however, it seemed that he couldn't keep from ducking his head back in and asking Marcus cryptically, "Once a week, did you say?" "Close the door behind you," Marcus said icily, and Hunt obeyed with a smothered sound that sounded suspiciously like laughter.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I DO NOT WISH TO GIVE THE ORDER FULL FORCE WITHOUT GIVING TIMELY WARNING BUT I AM A WID OW'S SON OUTLAWED AND MUST BE OBEYED.
~ Peter Carey
She was wild, noble, scary, and full of secrets. Unlike her daughter, whose beauty the whole world beamed to behold and be held, the Moon was a forceful queen, both changeable and fierce, and nothing dared defy her will. More feared than loved, she was definitely obeyed.
~ Martin Prechtel