Best Obeyed Quotations
119 Obeyed quotes by 101 unique authors
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
— Gustav Mahler
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Don't complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised…
— Joyce Meyer
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The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
— Natalie Wood
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Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.
— C.S. Lewis
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What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must…
— Bernhard Schlink
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A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.
— Jack London
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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
— Jack London
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Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his…
— Jack London
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It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless…
— Hilaire Belloc
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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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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
— Henry Adams
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Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
— Francis Bacon
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He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was…
— Daphne du Maurier
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The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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He stopped and looked at her. "Your eyes are leaking." "It's the flowers. They make me sneeze." "Then let us be away from the garden.…
— Lynn Kurland
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Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us…
— Gilles Deleuze
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Once she was certain, she didn't waiver. I had to make her stop for water or a bite to eat. She obeyed, but she was…
— Tamora Pierce
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During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how…
— Sebastian Junger
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They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
— Terry Pratchett
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What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power…
— John Piper
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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it…
— Saint Augustine
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