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.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
South America has virtually broken away in the last decade. That's an event of historic significance. South America just doesn't follow US orders. In fact there isn't a single US military base left there.
I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.
. . . that melancholy which we feel when we cease to obey orders which, from one day to another, keep the future hidden, and realise that we have at last begun to live in real earnest, as a grown-up person, the life, the only life that any of us has at his disposal.
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
Would we be the heroes or the cowards of the piece? Would we follow orders or stick to our principles, if those two things ever conflicted? Would we be the brave ones who still found the capacity for love - and for laughter - even while we were terrified?
Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.
You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.
Those who gave the orders, oversaw the killings, and ordered the subsequent cover-up have yet to be arrested and prosecuted.
When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.
No human creature can give orders to love.
I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.
It is not the State that orders us; but it is we who order the State!
Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
You know, we live in a country where if you want to go bomb somebody, there's remarkably little discussion about how much it might cost, even though the costs almost inevitably end up being orders of magnitude larger than anybody projected at the outcome. But when you have a discussion about whether or not we can assist people who are suffering, then suddenly we come very, you know, cost-conscious.