Quote by Daniel Humphreys

“So you’re following orders,” I said. “That’s the worst and scariest excuse in the world, really.”

— wildbow

“It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.”

— Ken Follett

“The way I see it, ignoring things is important.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.”

— Lois Lowry

“But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?”

— Ernest Hemingway

“All this stuff was like air: essential and expected, missed only when taken away.”

— Rebecca Forster

“I ignored what was going on behind my back because that was the only way I could deal with it.”

— Debbie Macomber

“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.”

— Henry Miller

“I was thinking about the word handle and all the unholdable things that got handled.”

— John Green

“She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude…

— Andrea D. Smith

“…there was a pattern to how things were done, rules we followed. Not following meant not knowing what might happen.”

— Gin Phillips