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Quotes About Directive

Personally, I think that for example the chemical directive in its present form does too much damage to the chemical industry - especially the medium sized businesses - and will hurt our worldwide competitiveness.
~ Angela Merkel
America has a long history of pride in the military uniform, and the Army has a 362-page directive on proper uniform wear. Included are guidelines that accommodate freedom of religion by outlining what religious attire or jewelry can be worn with the uniform.
~ Martha McSally
This was precisely the scenario my Presidential Study Directive had sought to avoid: the U.S. government suddenly caught between a repressive but reliable ally and a population insistent on change, voicing the democratic aspirations we claimed to stand for.
~ Barack Obama
Iano ordered her back to Ivins to finish her degree in biology. Willa wondered when he would notice Tig was immune to his directives. Tig informed her parents she refused to take out bank loans, with tuition exchange no longer an option, and anyway she'd already learned more than she wanted to know about a ravaged biosphere. The latter was no news to Willa, who'd seen how the girl always took the truth of human selfishness harder than any of her friends, even the history majors.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Fulfillment of Central Committee directives became Stalin's mantra, and suspicion of non-fulfillment, his obsession.
~ Stephen Kotkin
É recomendável pendurar na sala alguns cartazes com frases como: "NÃO FAÇAM ESSAS CARAS TÃO ROMANTICAS." Indicação de Bertold Brecht para a comédia Tambores na Noite.
~ Bertold Brecht
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
~ Bible
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
~ Lewis Mumford
If National Security Agency (NSA) heads fundamentally lack an understanding of what constitutes constitutionally protected communications, or worse, chose to disregard those directives, then it's time for the appropriate heads of these agencies to resign.
~ Mark Meadows
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.
~ David Hunt
I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
~ Albert Ellis
The prime directive of media training is that the question never matters. That an honest response is for amateurs. Media trainers advise memorizing a set of non-responses and repeating them no matter what question is asked.
~ Neil Macdonald
Bag the hands," Bosch said to him
~ Michael Connelly
It's my policy. -Harry Bosch
~ Michael Connelly
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
Very well, you two," Pattern said. "No mating. NO MATING." He hummed to himself, as if pleased, then sank down onto a plate.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
and tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.
~ Herman Melville
The functional design of organisms and their features would…seem to argue for the existence of a designer. It was Darwin's greatest accomplishment [however] to show that the directive organization of living beings can be explained as the result of a natural process, natural selection, without any need to resort to a Creator or other external agent."20
~ Stephen C. Meyer
Known as National Security Decision Directive 166, with an annex classified Top Secret/Codeword, the blueprint they produced became the legal basis for a massive escalation of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, starting in 1985.
~ Steve Coll
We're on a mission from Glod.
~ Terry Pratchett
You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Some warnings are unilateral.
~ Karen Marie Moning
shouting orders
~ Kat Martin