Obeys Quotes
103 quotes by 85 authors
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Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to…
— Honore de Balzac
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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
— Pliny the Elder
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Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
— Josh Billings
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The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But…
— Michio Kaku
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be…
— Thomas Szasz
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed anything comparable to…
— Anthony of Padua
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He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.
— Guy Steele
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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
— Eric Hoffer
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My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I…
— Helen Keller
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Legalism lacks the supreme sense of worship. It obeys but it does not adore.
— Geerhardus Vos
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To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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