Obedient Quotes

241 Obedient quotes by 185 unique authors

I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a… — Barbara Dana
The love of Christ is always there and unchanging, no matter what we do, but it is when we are obedient that we actually begin… — Criss Jami
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind… — Marcus Aurelius
Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As… — Hartley Coleridge
I'm not a perfectionist, but I like discipline. I'm obedient, but I'm not a perfectionist. I think it's important to work your hardest and be… — Natalie Portman
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… — Newt Gingrich
My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where… — Unknown Author
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous… — Angela Davis
I am extremely square and obedient in nature! — Tina Fey
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared… — Aldous Huxley
Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient… — Paul Klee
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting… — Joyce Meyer
The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient… — Michelangelo
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather… — Henri Nouwen
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church… — Joel Osteen
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly… — Ivan Turgenev
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And… — David A. Bednar
We were promised that we would have Jehovah, Jesus Christ, as our Savior and Redeemer. He would assure that we would all be resurrected. And… — Henry B. Eyring
I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from… — Annie Dillard
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… — Noam Chomsky
How would you expect to find community while you intentionally withdraw from it at some point? The disobedient cannot believe; only the obedient believe. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin… — Howard Zinn
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… — Tom Perrotta
I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do? — Libba Bray

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