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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders. -- Samuel Wilberforce
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. -- Theodore Dalrymple
Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness." -- Tim Bray
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. -- Tom Clancy
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders. -- John Hunt Morgan
Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell. -- Anthony Wayne
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. -- Morey Amsterdam
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. -- Ruth Hubbard
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them. -- Duke of Wellington
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed. -- Louis Farrakhan
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies. -- Milton Berle
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief. -- Nathan Hale
By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing. -- Don Marquis
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
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. -- James Dean
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. -- Bruno Bettelheim
If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. -- Joseph Stalin
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders. -- Louis Farrakhan
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. -- Charles Bukowski
I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. -- Barack Obama
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other interest, and very soon orders came to march forthwith to Gettysburg. -- Joshua Chamberlain
I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea. -- Thor Heyerdahl
The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain. -- Hakeem Olajuwon
South Koreans who have seen and praised the mass games should remember the hardship of tearful children. Teachers drive them hard with curses and orders to repeat and repeat. When the children return home in the evening, they can hardly walk. -- Kim Il-sung
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- J. B. Priestley
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. -- Joseph Priestley
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil. -- Horatio Nelson
International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. -- Noam Chomsky
My subordinates followed my orders. -- Jorge Rafael Videla
I'm the original take-orders girl. -- Judy Garland
My duty is to obey orders. -- Stonewall Jackson
I was only following God's orders. -- Joseph Kallinger
Take advice, but don't take orders. -- Jim Rohn
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. -- Dale Carnegie
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders. -- Woody Allen
I take my marching orders from the Constitution. -- Ron Paul
I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon. -- Yasser Arafat
No human creature can give orders to love. -- George Sand
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction. -- George S. Patton
The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience. -- John Stott
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders. -- David Seabury
Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell! -- Anthony Wayne
Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips! -- Santino Marella
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued. -- Mia Couto
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. -- Jim Rohn
Raised some taxes based on court orders and voter approval. -- Mike Huckabee
... orders come from the work, not work from the orders. -- Mary Parker Follett
Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. -- Ilona Andrews
We are born free, but are taught to obey orders. -- Marty Rubin
I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp -- Vince Flynn
God not only orders our steps, He orders our stops. -- George Muller
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. -- David Hockney
We are born free, but we're taught to obey orders. -- Marty Rubin
Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom. -- Donna Lynn Hope
It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. -- Al Pacino
In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it. -- Erwin Rommel
The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give. -- Charles de Gaulle
I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders. -- Dave Attell
It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has. -- Tim Kaine
Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others -- Saji Ijiyemi
In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions. -- Amit Kalantri
Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize -- J. I. Packer
Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest -- Alfred de Musset
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. -- George Gaylord Simpson
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I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders -- Francis Ayer
There's nothing shameful about taking orders from a woman of superior rank. -- Lee Child
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Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare. -- Rush Limbaugh
The more laws and orders are multiplied, the more theft and violence increase. -- Laozi
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, -- Confucius
By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity. -- Bryant McGill
Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority. -- Napoleon Hill
The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders. -- Peyton Manning
But I am a widows son outlawed and my orders must be obeyed. -- Ned Kelly
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me. -- George Gissing
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life. -- Alexandre Dumas
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders? -- Ted Rall
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. -- Noam Chomsky
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given. -- Orson Scott Card
I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well. -- Murray Walker
The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. -- John Taylor Gatto
In 2003, the value of Airbuss orders was more than twice as much as Boeings. -- Norm Dicks
In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders! -- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's. -- Norm Dicks
If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders. -- Naftali Bennett
When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders! -- Carnie Wilson
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. -- Frank Herbert
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. -- Buffalo Bill
American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that. -- Eric Bolling
The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier. -- Jean-Marie Le Pen
There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued. -- Sam Manekshaw
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ... -- Zelda Fitzgerald
Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders. -- Muhammad Iqbal
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. -- George Eliot
If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders. -- George W. Bush
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him. -- John Calvin
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders. -- Vince Lombardi
The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders. -- Brian Herbert
And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders. -- Jeffrey Overstreet
There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude. -- Robert Ballard
Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold. -- Jim Holden
It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State! -- Adolf Hitler
Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give. -- Ice Cube
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders. -- Masaru Emoto
Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. -- Andrew Mellon
Donald Trump also will repeal all these executive amnesty orders that President Obama has put into place. -- Kellyanne Conway
Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water. -- Bob Hope
You obey Wade Barrett's orders and you disrespect every person who has ever been champion. Including yourself. -- Randy Orton
The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings. -- Aaron Klein
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory. -- Sun Tzu
Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory. -- Jello Biafra

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