Orders Quotes

443 quotes by 367 authors

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so… — Diane Ackerman
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in… — Mao Zedong
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.… — Vincent de Paul
My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could… — Isobelle Carmody
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so… — Ron Kind
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. — John Lothrop Motley
I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. — Marjane Satrapi
Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it orders and orientates… — Valentin Tomberg
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayingsâ€”they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself. — Randy Orton
Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips! — Santino Marella
When I'm president, we'll have executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day — Dick Gephardt
Hollywood's martyr-mythology leaves out the fact that the famed Hollywood Ten, for example, were in fact members of the Communist Party, which advocated the violent… — Jonah Goldberg
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is… — Edmund Burke
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure… — Stephen Covey
What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid… — John Updike
The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase. — Laozi
Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning. — Saadi
Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her… — Janet Frame
The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders. — Peyton Manning

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