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«The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there»
Author: Betty Grable
(Actress)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Relationships,
Women
| Keywords:
began, die out, discovered, good practice, orders, pedestals, putting, put into practice, The Practice
«The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders»
Author: Linda Festa
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
in good order, one of them, orders, relationship, taking
«When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights; and I received several very severe whippings for telling people that my name was William, after orders were given to change it. Though young, I was old enough to place a high appreciation upon my name.»
«What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong»
Author: George Norman Douglas
(Composer)
| About:
Men,
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
orders
«What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
Amid, arise, cosmic, fiendish, gene, genes, hypnotic, inducement, inducements, irresponsibility, mate, mix, orders, perfumed, permits, tireless, torture, tribe, viruses
«We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
administrative, geniuses, in color, orders, pattern, take orders, towering, types
«The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, Joy of, orders
«The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
determine, function, obey, orders, originate, originate in, originating, patriot, prerogative, prerogatives, servant, temporary, the government
«The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| Keywords:
body, body mind, commands, Itself, meeting of minds, meets, obeys, orders, resistance, The Body
«The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.»
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