#obedient

We all have individually special kingdoms of success in each of us. Obedience is the throne of those kingdoms without which the real person we are is sure to suffer eviction. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#food-for-thought #god #individual #instruction #israelmore-ayivor

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#cat #cats #come #different #dogs

I had the luck of having an obedient body. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#had #having #i #luck #obedient

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#family #his #legal #loyal #noah

Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ↗

— Paul Klee

#become #born #everything #fall #fruits

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient. ↗

— Willie Aames

#heart #i #obedient #would

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. ↗

— D.L. Moody

#dwight #god #life #lyman #obedient

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#compulsion #every #obedient #polite #put

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #created #else #head #heard