Obedient Quotes
241 Obedient quotes by 185 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
— Remy de Gourmont
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God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
— Henry B. Eyring
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Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
— Amy Tan
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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
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Nothing is so loved by tyrants as obedient subjects.
— Clarence Darrow
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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
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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 Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a cult…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
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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
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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
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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
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Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.
— Steven Pressfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.
— Diana Wynne Jones
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The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option
— James Patterson
Who Wrote These Obedient Quotes
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