Obedient Quotes

241 Obedient quotes by 185 unique authors

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
Doubt, or the absence of faith and naivete, is a vice peculiar to this age, for no one is obedient nowadays; and naivete, which means… — Charles Baudelaire
A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always… — Charlotte Bronte
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then… — Alan Paton
Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called. — Remy de Gourmont
God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them. — Henry B. Eyring
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! — Amy Tan
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects. — Clarence Darrow
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult… — Roger Lowenstein
There is a golden thread that runs through every account of faith from the beginning of the world to the present time. Abraham, Noah, the… — Thomas S. Monson
It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word… — George MacDonald
Parents teach children discipline for two different, indeed diametrically opposed, reasons: to render the child submissive to them and to make him independent of them.… — Thomas Szasz
Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit — Mikhail Bulgakov
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably… — Gail Carson Levine
Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the… — Gilles Deleuze
Don’t concentrate on what you don’t have or have lost. The Lord promised the obedient to share all that He possesses with them. You may… — Richard G. Scott
Sometimes it seems especially difficult to submit to "great tribulation" when we look around and see others seemingly much less obedient who triumph even as… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,… — Anna Akhmatova
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
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. — Dwight L. Moody
Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous. — Diana Wynne Jones
The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option — James Patterson

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