{"quotes":[{"text":"You obey orders, because if you do not, you cannot expect the same from your men. You are part of the wolf, not the whole wolf. I would have thought you had learned that when you were a boy, but it is not the case. A wolf cannot have more than one head, General, or it tears itself apart.","author":"Conn Iggulden","tags":["apart","case","expect","general","head","men","obey","orders","part","same","tears","wolf"],"id":33721,"author_id":"Conn+Iggulden"},{"text":"Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["age","baby-sit","child-marriage","follow","husband","marry","orders","relationships","wife","younger"],"id":77195,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.","author":"James S.A. Corey","tags":["bus","orders","seizures","sun"],"id":101557,"author_id":"James+S.A.+Corey"},{"text":"If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.","author":"Conn Iggulden","tags":["blood","both","built","forgiven","ger","hurt","important","khan","killed","matter","nation","orders","ranks","talent","thousand","win"],"id":109303,"author_id":"Conn+Iggulden"},{"text":"Just following orders' is no excuse unless you're in the bedroom.","author":"Donna Lynn Hope","tags":["anarchy","following-order","government","orders"],"id":124503,"author_id":"Donna+Lynn+Hope"},{"text":"Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it?‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. Xxvi. 4.‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. Xxvi. 5.","author":"Samuel Grant Oliphant","tags":["commands","contradiction","foolish","funny","humor","humorous","orders"],"id":208268,"author_id":"Samuel+Grant+Oliphant"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["crucifix","five-people-you-meet-in-heaven","foxhole","middle-of-a-big-war","orders","religion","war"],"id":209397,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table.GRACE: -Is that an order?CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down].","author":"Tennessee Williams","tags":["need-for-love","orders","requests","solitude"],"id":218065,"author_id":"Tennessee+Williams"},{"text":"It wasn't as if they had a choice. They were soldiers whose choices had ended when they had signed contracts and taken their oaths. Whether they had joined for reasons of patriotism, of romantic notions, to escape a broken home of some sort, or out of economic need, their job now was to follow the orders of other soldiers who were following orders, too. Somewhere, far from Iraq, was where the orders began, but by the time they reached Rustamiyah, the only choice left for a solider was to choose which lucky charm to tuck behind his body armor, or which foot to line up in front of the other, as he went out to follow the order of the day.","author":"David Finkel","tags":["choices","military","orders","soldiers"],"id":224436,"author_id":"David+Finkel"},{"text":"Don't let people supervise your life, If you know who you are, you shouldn't be living in that prison of dominance, live by your orders, you are your own soldier.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["cage","command","control","dominance","domination","fetters","freedom","iife-and-living","imprisonment","liberty","michael-bassey-johnson","order","orders","prison","say","soldier","supervision"],"id":312592,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}