Quotes with orders

  • On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
  • Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
  • Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
  • There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization's struggle against oppression.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ruth Hubbard Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
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  • Bonnie Somerville Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but when it's a show about women, they want to pit everyone against each other. I don't think they'd do that if it was a guy show. I think there's room for all of us.
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  • Anthony Wayne Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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  • Burt Rutan NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ang Lee On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Levitt Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Bruno Bettelheim 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
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Jean Cocteau The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Buffalo Bill The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
    DeSylva, Buddy
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Betty Grable The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no course of life so weak and Scottish as that which is ordered by orders, method, and discipline.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Barney Ross We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Carl Karcher We have developed overlays for the keys of the cash registers with the help of the Braille Institute, so that blind crew members can take orders and help our guests.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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