I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
. . . orders come from the work, not work from the orders.
Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.
When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.
. . . 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.
There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.
I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army. " And I told him I only had 132.
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.
Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
God has given each of us our "marching order. " Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.
Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.