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Quotes About Orders

Some insignificant and probably nocturnal mammals also survived and experienced in the Paleocene and Eocene a spectacular radiation, producing all the orders and many of the families of the now living mammals.
~ Ernst W. Mayr
The great thing was to form the idea that this one thing – mind or world – may well be capable of other forms of appearance that we cannot grasp and that do not imply the notions of space and time. This means an imposing liberation from our inveterate prejudice. There probably are other orders of appearance than the space-time-like. It was, so I believe, Schopenhauer who first read this from Kant.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
The Argo was no longer beached beside the other ships but rocked at anchor some distance from shore. "The king's orders," Iolaus whispered. "He thinks that once the ship's got all her supplies aboard, she'd be too heavy for us to launch. That shows how little he knows of ships, or how little he thinks of us!" "Or how eager he is to be sure nothing keeps Prince Jason here," I murmured.
~ Esther M. Friesner
BE OPENED ONLY AT SPECIFIC ORDERS AND UNDER CURRENT OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. In the lower right-hand corner were the words DESTROY BEFORE CAPTURE OR ABANDONMENT OF AIRCRAFT.
~ Eugene Burdick
Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
~ Arthur Levitt
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be arranged in only finitely many different orders. If you shuffle the deck infinitely many times, the card orderings must necessarily repeat.
~ Brian Greene
Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
For the most part, our educational systems remain rooted in the outdated and fractured Prussian model, which teaches people to take orders rather than think for themselves. Paired with the technological advances in communications, we are left swimming in an ever-engulfing sea of facts, unable to find meaning, never mind wisdom.
~ Bernard A. Lietaer
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.
~ Bertolt Brecht
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give better orders from there.
~ Betty Grable
I am not occasionally insubordinate," Ferencz corrected an officer, who noted that description of his behavior in an official file. "I am usually insubordinate. I don't take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.
~ Bill O'Reilly
I am usually insubordinate. I don't take orders that I know are stupid or illegal.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Her husband was not malicious, but he did bully, though without anger or animosity, as do petty tyrants who think that giving orders means swearing. In front of any stranger he behaved himself, but in his family he let himself go and pretended to be terrible although he was really scared of everybody.
~ Guy de Maupassant
The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.
~ Franz Halder
On the New York Stock Exchange, all buy and sell orders are routed through a single 'specialist,' guaranteeing that most small trades can be matched directly. But most larger trades are delivered to the specialist on the floor of the exchange by human brokers, a system that big investors view as increasingly inefficient.
~ Alex Berenson
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
~ Charles Bukowski
around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
So we have talking cats now? Of course we have talking cats. We're lucky we don't have talking horses, with what we've put them all through. I should just be grateful that they aren't dictating orders.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.
~ Bernard Cornwell
But Ubba? Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Most raves used to end by getting CS gassed. It wouldn't be like: 'Last orders! We've gotta go!' It'd be: 'Sigh, it's been CS gassed, we've gotta leave.'
~ Kano
Since his inauguration, Trump has signed numerous executive orders that negatively impact poor, black and brown, queer, Muslim, and other communities.
~ Patrisse Cullors
The biology teacher had assured the class just the other day that parents were an absolute necessity, but you had to wonder. Was sex the only way nature could devise to bring the higher orders' next generation into the world?
~ Eve Adams
Su misión no era pensar ni sentir, sino cumplir órdenes.
~ Fernando Aramburu