Quotes About Obedient

Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they'd actually made some sort of choice.

Inside there would be other dragons, infinitely more boring dragons, not to mention his mother, and probably a new set of rules about appeasing Snowflake, staying away from NightWings, and generally acting more like an obedient puddle.

Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now—for one occasion only—his Master.

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.

It was designed as a training programme to force citizens to be compliant and obedient to the State.

Men are like dogs. Some are… Well, men are just like dogs.

There is a godly way to date, and that is what you want your relationship to look like if you are seeking God's guidance and direction. God speaks when we are obedient. That's

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Obsequious sycophants

Hodge's attitude toward women centered in his understanding of marriage and family values. As he wrote, "Marriage is a divine institution ordained by God for His glory and the happiness of men." While a husband in the marriage ceremony had to promise to be "faithful and loving," the woman had in addition to promise to be "obedient.

Having faith does not mean never having doubts or questions. It does mean remaining obedient.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

Augusto convirtió explícitamente la conquista global —y una visión territorial « compacta» de un imperio centrado en Roma, en vez del viejo mosaico de Estados obedientes— en la razón de su gobierno.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.' He looked perplexed. 'Where did that come from? Is that a quote?' 'Yeah. Henry David Thoreau. You know, my fave philosopher.

To be Jewish was, and is, to be different. This is the root meaning of purity or, in biblical language, holiness - to be set apart for God's purposes. To be holy is to be distinctive; the term `holy,' when applied to people, is shorthand for `peculiar by virtue of being obedient to God's commandments.' Holiness is the way of life that marks out the covenant people, the expression of the fact that this people is called, or elected, by God.

The abuse doesn't take away the proper use. Magic is, in fact, a parody of the truly human vocation. Image-bearing humans, obedient to the Creator, are meant to exercise delegated authority in the world in order that life can flourish.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Understanding, in fact, is my job, that's what writers are for--to try to understand everyone and everything and put this understanding into words, finished to the gossamer fineness of a rose petal, words made supple and obedient, words cut to hold the reader's mind like a well-made glove that fits like second skin.