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Quotes About Orders

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
~ Masaru Emoto
Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders...are lower than garbage. However...those who do not care for and support their fellows...are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Men are weak. They accomplish the worst only by remaining unaware of it until they grow accustomed to it and find themselves justified by the "greatness" of rigorous discipline and the orders of an irresistible leader.
~ Maurice Blanchot
There is in all expression a spontaneity which will not take orders, not even those which I would like to give to myself.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.
~ Mia Couto
Lourenço o menino não entendeu uma coisa: vocês não manda, você só dá ordens. Entendeu?
~ Mia Couto
For those familiar with the work, it is no surprise that the testimony includes that of Pelagia Lewinska, from her memoir Twenty Months in Auschwitz, when she describes her first awareness of the Nazi intent and remarked that she "felt under orders to live" (Lewinska, 41ff., 50).
~ Unknown
Even though he received the order to stand down—likely from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who may have been receiving his orders from Valerie Jarrett21—Ham went ahead with his rapid response plan. In order to stop him, one source says that the administration had the commanding general apprehended. Ham was informed that he was relieved of his command, which stopped his attempt to save American lives.
~ Michael Savage
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. James Dean
~ Unknown
Órdenes; para eso se inventó el teléfono, para capturar a los enemigos del gobierno!
~ Unknown
We had been ordered to the Gulf of Guinea to watch the mouth of the great Niger River. Our
~ Mike Rogers
True agent or "representative" is always subject to that individual's orders, can be dismissed at any time and cannot act contrary to the interests or wishes of his principal. Clearly, the "representative" in a democracy can never fulfill such agency functions, the only ones consonant with a libertarian society.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
Great chefs always have to wait for orders. They adapt to all circumstances.
~ Unknown
The prince may give out orders only according to the wish of the king, who is the true ruler of the people.
~ Unknown
Do you think you have the right to give me orders now?" The Archangel of New York, a creature so lethal that part of her feared him even now, lifted the hair off her nape, brushed his lips across her skin. "Of course. You are mine." No hint of humor, nothing but stark possession. "I don't think you've quite got the hang of this true love thing.
~ Nalini Singh
More, Elena." It was a command, given in the tone she only ever heard in bed, sexual and demanding and, sometimes, without mercy. "Always with the orders," she whispered
~ Nalini Singh
But Jack, you're just a Captain and I'm the General. I order you not to go. He tried to smile, . . . .These orders, he whispered, come from the Commander in Chief.
~ Unknown
Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.
~ Neil Postman
little later, a message arrived for the waiting troops. It was all off!
~ Unknown
contained in sealed orders that were not to be opened until they were at sea.
~ Unknown
to get the box containing the signals and ship's orders and throw it into the sea.
~ Unknown
D.A. I got my orders—either the recordings and the witness' name, or I put a slug in you where it'll do the most good.
~ Unknown
There is nothing thrilling about a laboring person's work, but it is the laboring person who makes the ideas of the genius possible. And it is the laboring saint who makes the ideas of his Master possible. When you labor at prayer, from God's perspective there are always results. What an astonishment it will be to see, once the veil is finally lifted, all the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you have been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.
~ Oswald Chambers
I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.
~ Patrick Ness