Obey Quotes

772 Obey quotes by 520 unique authors

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. — Voltaire
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. — Jean Anouilh
The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide… — Mark Twain
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be… — Frank Herbert
When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for twins. Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.… — Steven Wright
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding
[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a… — C.S. Lewis
I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till… — C.S. Lewis
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within… — Hermann Hesse
It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be… — Joshua Harris
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow? — John Milton
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us...… — Joss Whedon
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and… — Philip Pullman
I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey. — C.S. Lewis
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. — Graham Greene
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest — Alfred de Musset
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in… — Gregory Maguire
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we… — William Shakespeare
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish… — Wystan Hugh Auden
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong. — Jack London

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