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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders. — Daniel Woodrell

When they sat down at a small table and punched in their orders, — Isaac Asimov

I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose. — Liv Ullmann

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders. — Samuel Wilberforce

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. — Louis Farrakhan

I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won't stand the same from another man? — Magda Alexander

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. — Dion Fortune

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and "orders" are in fact only of archaeological interest. — Idries Shah

You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that. I hung up. — Ilona Andrews

I was only following God's orders. — Joseph Kallinger

The result showed the wisdom of your orders. — John Bigelow

We are the Triumvirate. We do not take orders from Kerch street rats with dubious haircuts. — Leigh Bardugo

'Sex and The City' had very strong gag orders as to what we could say and not say. — Willie Garson

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. — Betty Grable

Following orders is right. Giving orders for the wrong reasons isn't. — Aleksandr Voinov

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways. — Kit Reed

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them? — Oscar Wilde

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

There is no coincidence in God's Kingdom, all things are divinely arranged and He orders the footsteps of the righteous. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You lose them the same way your lose a battalion; by errors of judgment, orders that are impossible to fulfill, and through impossible conditions. — Ernest Hemingway,

ArchGovernor's ears," Podginus orders. Bridge forces — Pierce Brown

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky

The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts. — Sun Tzu

What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely. — Tessa Dare

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

I do not want to give any orders to the airmen, but get hold of a Komsomol air unit, and say I want volunteers for the job. — Ivan Konev

How to follow orders when you're bordering on nausea and you're bored and insecure and dwarfed by fear. — Kate Tempest

I have the right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

No human creature can give orders to love. — George Sand

God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops. — George Muller

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years. — Archilochus

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em. — Bernie Mac

Head-keeper Hudson, we believe, has been now told to receive all orders for fly-paper and for preservation of your hen-pheasant's life. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The engineers were under imperative orders — Sam Davis

American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. — Eric Bolling

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day. — George Washington Carver

Lawyers will always buckle under to something, whether its bribes, violence, court orders, or the weight of their own bullshit. — James Alan Gardner

You ordered an immediate withdrawal, sir. Am I to understand I have the liberty to countermand your orders in combat? — Owen R. O'Neill

Oh, he'll try, I'm sure ... The usual empty words, the usual slithering out of action ... oh, on the Dark Lord's orders, of course! — J.K. Rowling

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman

Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity? — Phan Ming Yen

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders. — Elisabeth Elliot

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet. — Peter Heller

It is a soldier's right to complain, his only defense against orders not to his liking. — Davis Bunn

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders. — Dave Attell

Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests. — John Dewey

But I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed. — Ned Kelly

Hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction. — Alexandre Dumas

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent. — Shaquille O'Neal

I've never shot a civilian except when under orders. — William T. Vollmann

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders! — Carnie Wilson

If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders. — Naftali Bennett

Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give. — Ice Cube

The constant cycle of ideas I get are orders received by God, and the people I meet are assignments He gives me in order to fulfill his tasks. — Daniel Marques

The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland! — Andre Vltchek

Thomas Edison walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender says, "Okay, I'll serve you a beer. Just don't get any ideas. — Various

Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. — Ilona Andrews

Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casius
oh i do,I'm just so pissed i had extra left over - Jace — D.D. Barant

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. — George Gaylord Simpson

A good jockey doesn't need orders and a bad jockey couldn't carry them out anyway; so it's best not to give them any. — Lester Piggott

Stephanos was angry, but he was still a military man, and the best path to victory was following orders. Not exacting revenge. — Evan Currie

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to. — Paulo Coelho

My duty is to obey orders. — Stonewall Jackson

In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. — Erwin Rommel

Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love. — Sydney Samuelson

Hers was a tone and manner that assured the listener they had only two choices; obedience or death. — Loretta Chase

I could never take orders from anyone. — Gautam Adani

Do not wait for orders from headquarters! Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the guns! — Pat Buchanan

Orders come from the work, not work from the orders. — Mary Parker Follett

I don't like taking orders. — Jaci Burton

I can only be responsible for my orders. I cannot be responsible for all the acts of Himmler. — Oswald Pohl

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. — Bob Gunton

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. — Jello Biafra

Only the gods tell him what to do, and you should beware of men who take their orders from the gods. — Bernard Cornwell

Giving me orders already? I like that. Makes me feel like a boy toy. — Lauren Blakely

They're testing you to see if you can follow orders, and you're failing with flying f**king colours. — D.R. Graham

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.' — Jim Rohn

I'll follow orders, unless your order is stupid. And telling me to actually leave you behind is stupid." An — Katie Reus

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. — Dale Carnegie

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. — Jean Cocteau

I hate the rules of language; I love the orders of numbers. — Joey Lawsin

If time takes orders from man, it would have been reviewed to yesterday to correct the things that are effective. — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

The army is under orders to defend every place. — Helmut Kohl

You know how impossible it is, in short, to have a free nation if it is a military nation and under military orders — Woodrow Wilson

I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders. — Janny Wurts

Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom. — Donna Lynn Hope

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible. — Reinhold Niebuhr

orders at home. Over the following — Jeff Hobbs

There was a time when you trusted me with your life!"
"And there was a time when you used your brain instead of blindly following orders, — Karen Chance

I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are. — Graham Elliot

I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well. — Murray Walker

There have existed,
in every age and every country,
two distinct orders of men
the lovers of freedom and
the devoted advocates of power. — Robert Y. Hayne

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon

Close your eyes," he orders.
"Why?"
"Because I said to."
I close my eyes. — J. Kenner

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

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, — Confucius

Do you not know that the God of the Old Testament orders the Jews to consume and enslave the peoples of the earth? — Julius Streicher