Quotes of: Obeyed Keyword

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.

English

If you are married to a chicken obey the chicken. If you are married to a dog obey the dog.

Chinese

The disobedient fowl obeys in a pot of soup.

Nigerian

In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young—-well, not even the young...

Elijah & the SAT: Reflections on a hairy old desert prophet and the benchmarking of our children's lives

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

David Novak

when you obey the rules, the rules obey you

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Saint Ignatius

Where water is the boss, there must the land obey.

African

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.

Sydney J. Harris

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure. This is good news, because it means very simply that the command to obey is the command to be happy in God. The commandments of God are only as hard to obey as the promises of G...

The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

If you obey God with your whole heart, you'll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them.

When Sparrows Fall

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

Henry David Thoreau

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

J. D. Hayworth

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Ashes

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

The Reader

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

C. S. Lewis

Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.

Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Thomas Merton