You know, for the record, I hate to take orders. But! I realize I'm in over my head. You have no idea how much I hate all this supernatural garbage. So I'm willing to listen to you, but you better start acting like I'm a person and not some mindless blow-up doll. (Amanda)
. . . the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.
A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.
Do not wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up, everybody, and ride to the sound of the gun.
I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.
I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
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.
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Take advice, but don't take orders.
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.
I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders. '
Chaos theory simply suggests that what appears to most people as chaos is not really chaotic, but a series of different types of orders with which the human mind has not yet become familiar.
Since we ate taking orders, get me some sunchips!
The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.