Quotes About Orders

Lieutenant Cranston, sitting across the tavern table from him, looked startled. "Something amiss, Captain?" "It's as I feared—we've been called back to sea early. We set sail in less than a

Mary wasn't the only one who'd gone around the bend in the last few weeks. Or had Larry always been this way, determinedly unconscious of the deadly results of his "harmless" schemes? Maybe they were all like that, the presidents and chairmen and commanding generals who sat in their fancy offices and gave orders to "engage targets" or "cut the work force." They never saw the suffering, bleeding bodies those orders affected.

Don't think about jumping, Iggy. We're going about seventy, and despite my orders, we're on our way to Puebla. So keep your ass glued in the goddamn seat.

Siempre existe un modo e obedecer.Esto es lo que los cerebros occidentales deberían comprender. -Quizás el cerebro nipón sea capaz de obligarse a sí mismo a olvidar un idioma. El cerebro occidental carece de ese recurso. [...] -Inténtelo de todos modos. O, por los menos, hago como que lo intenta. He recibido órdenes al respecto. ¿Me ha comprendido?

The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time—we've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

Strictly speaking, the Patrol is not a military organization at all." "Sir?" "I know, I know—you are trained to use weapons, you are under orders, you wear a uniform. But your purpose is not to fight, but to prevent fighting, by every possible means. The Patrol is not a fighting organization; it is the repository of weapons too dangerous to entrust to military men.

Rozkazy, které dostáváte, nejsou nesplnitelné, to se jenom tak zdá, protože jsou skoro nesplnitelné.

I have taken lots of orders, some of which I shouldn't have, but I had never yet taken orders from a piece of machinery. "Go climb a rope!" I said. "You'll have to drag me." This is not what to say to a robot. It did.

Authority: One who is good at combating the enemy fools it with inscrutable moves, confuses it with false intelligence, makes it relax by concealing one's strength, . . . deafens its ears by jumbling one's orders and signals, blinds its eyes by converting one's banners and insignias, . . . confounds its battle plan by providing distorted facts. —Tou Bi Fu Tan, A Scholar's Dilettante Remarks on War (16th century A.D.)

But it isn't working fast enough." He tried to compose himself. "If you took your job seriously, you'd be looking into how to make change happen faster. Some things might be against the law, but in that case the law is wrong. I think the principle was set at Nuremberg—you're wrong to obey orders that are wrong.

he was a sort of dully furious Soviet bureaucrat, a petty man used to giving orders and being obeyed.

Best be savin' your orders for someone who'll follow them, vampire.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

la escuela, el colegio, no es sino una sociedad en miniatura. Por eso nos están dando órdenes continuamente. Un puñado de ciegos nos dice lo que tenemos que hacer, y hace trizas nuestras ilimitadas facultades.

He was learning to curse his newly acquired status as resident genius.

And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders.

She places the orders for cases of frozen meat, huge cans of wax beans. She makes sure they stay

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.

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.

I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.