Orders Quotes

• Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Sense

• When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Body
  • Orders
  • Narrator

• If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Up
  • Jesus
  • Amazed

• Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Change
  • Reason

• The reasons for this are being determined. They have been ordered to leave Kosovo immediately and to await further orders

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Determined
  • Orders
  • Ordered

• I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Refuge
  • Mayor

• We'll get orders from there of where we're going to go next.

  

  Don Gibson
  • Next
  • Orders

• I don't have to follow your orders. I don't work here anymore.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Orders

• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Respect
  • Reverence
  • Orders

• My argument is focused on the fact that a relatively small percentage of the world's Muslim countries are impacted by this order. Stated differently, this executive order is a singularly ineffective - in legal parlance, it would be called under-inclusive - form of a Muslim ban.

  

  David B. Rivkin
  • World
  • Country
  • Argument

• Do us a favor. Stay out and off the water, where the coastal hazards are extreme. Heed evacuation orders if it becomes necessary later on.

  

  Craig Fugate
  • Water
  • Extreme
  • Evacuation

• They all come off as the Great Sphinx because they have marching orders about not talking to the media.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Great
  • Media
  • Orders

• In accordance with international law, those who give such orders should be held responsible, including in a criminal way, ... The international tribunal on the former Yugoslavia should immediately look into this.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Law
  • International
  • Yugoslavia

• The new orders have changed the balance. We took more orders, which by themselves didn’t turn any resource into a new bottleneck, but they did drastically reduce the amount of spare capacity on the non-bottlenecks, and we didn’t compensate with increased inventory in front of the bottleneck.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Balance
  • Reduce
  • Inventory

• Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Decorations
  • Dazzle

• Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Sin
  • Priest
  • Orders

• A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Space
  • Dog

• It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Enough
  • Orders
  • Obeyed

• [W]e will do what we like with the bourgeoisie. ... We give the orders; they do what they are told. Any resistance will be broken ruthlessly.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Resistance
  • Orders
  • Bourgeoisie

• Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Girls
  • Distinct
  • Unaffected

• To Xeniades, who had purchased Diogenes at the slave market, he said, "Come, see that you obey orders."

  

  Diogenes
  • Slave
  • Market
  • Orders

• The partisan situation in the Italian theater, particularly central Italy, has deteriorated to such an extent that it constitutes a serious danger to troops, supply lines, war industry and economic potential. The fight against the partisans must be carried out with all means at our disposal and with utmost severity. I will protect any commander who exceeds our usual restraint in the choice of methods in executing one's orders is better than failure or neglect to act.

  

  Albert Kesselring
  • Fight
  • Orders
  • Partisan

• In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Kill
  • Absence
  • Orders

• I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict.

  

  Witold Pilecki
  • Sense
  • Account
  • Arrested

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