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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
Eddie Campbell
Dangerous
Three
Power
Before
Down
Think
Way
Corridor
Kinds
Given
More
Passed
Command
Orders
Much
Assassin
Levels
Two
Vague
I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.
Elena Satine
Myself
Good
Giving
Think
Out
Carries
Kind
Would
Pretty
Totally
Pretty Good
Dirty
Could
Never
Bidding
Go
Orders
Gangster
Things
Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
Fabrizio Moreira
People
Law
Something
Through
Executive
Force
Make
Occasional
Going
Representatives
Orders
Elected
Meant
Use
The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
Fanny Kemble
Government
Time
Great
People
Dangerous
Witness
Distress
Spirit
Triumphant
Prevailed
Vast
Had
Discontent
Arrival
Orders
Successful
Lowest
Who
Mechanics
Whom
Travellers
Among
Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby.
Fred Davis
Living
Out
Response
Seemed
Point
He
Dropping
Nobody
Looked
Him
Got
Heard
Rod
Up
Walker
Hobby
Stopped
Orders
Commune
Then
Sudden
Found
I guess it's from going to Virginia Military Institute. I'm a good person to follow orders.
Fred Willard
Good
Good Person
Military
Virginia
Guess
Follow
Institute
Person
Going
Orders
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
George Gaylord Simpson
Time
Backward
Degrees
Course
Different
Orders
Converge
People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
George Papandreou
You
People
Cursing
Strong
Car
Black
Be Strong
Giving
Big
Say
Weak
Would
Wearing
Above
Driving
Supposed
Look
Tie
Around
Always
Opposition
Orders
While
Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders.
George William Norris
Righteousness
Sides
Respective
Both
Remained
Both Sides
Could
Neutral
Thus
Although
Orders
Either
While
Them
Illegal
Agreeing
Third
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
George Woodcock
Knighthood
Sort
Same
Orders
English
Companions
Even
Thing
I was born into a very religious family where everything was about setting the right example for the community and having to obey orders blindly. I felt that everyone was growing up in the world, except me. This is probably one of the reasons why I had such a rebellious attitude towards any form of authority.
Grace Jones
Attitude
Family
Me
World
Obey
Example
Blindly
Community
Setting
Everyone
Everything
Religious
Born
About
Having
Except
Had
Towards
Felt
Up
Very
Authority
Any
Where
Form
Orders
Reasons
Rebellious
Growing
Growing Up
Why
Right
I think what somebody orders and how they eat and cook really shows who they are.
Graham Elliot
Somebody
Think
Eat
How
Orders
Really
Cook
Who
Shows
I used to have to pick up the phone and talk to people who placed orders for the car. When you reach a certain size, you need to have processes in place.
Henrik Fisker
You
People
Phone
Car
Pick
Reach
Talk
Up
Size
Orders
Place
Processes
Placed
Certain
Used
Who
Need
Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
Henry Villard
Enemy
Thought
Men
Field
Several
Abandon
Possible
General
Retreat
Became
Without
Left
Yielded
Officers
Any
Controlled
Getting
Impulse
As Far As
Formal
Orders
Far
Organizations
The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
Herbert V. Prochnow
Mistake
Never
Takes
Fellow
Makes
Does
His
Orders
Who
I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills.
Homer Hickam
Phone
Listening
Car
Black
Rose
Mine
Way
Miner
Ranks
Out
Steel
Through
He
His
Yelling
Up
Get
Wanted
Grew
Orders
Coal
Ground
Who
Company
Dad
Mills
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
James Longstreet
Seen
Fire
Before
Batteries
Favor
City
About
Diversion
Troops
Through
Points
Open
Were
Noon
Jackson
Any
Where
Orders
Little
Sent
Streets
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
Jane Austen
Man
Women
Will
Girl
Distinct
Has-Been
Unaffected
Been
Being
Orders
Sensible
Used
Who
Two
'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.
Jane Lindskold
Strong
First
Books
Never
Printing
Audience
Go
Walking
Legends
Orders
Much
Initial
Found
Based
Second
The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.
Jason Kander
Courage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Military
Follow
Give
Commander-In-Chief
American
Orders
Them
American Military
Deserve
We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.
Jill Stein
War
Government
Our
Taking
Industry
Behalf
Banks
Orders
Really
Acting
Marching
Need
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
John Bigelow
Wisdom
Result
Orders
Your
I think for me, wearing the helmet and being part of the Stormtroopers felt so strange. Like, so this is what it feels like to just be one of the many. And to look the same, and to have to do the same thing. To be under the same orders. This is what it feels like.
John Boyega
Me
Strange
Same Thing
Just Be
Think
Wearing
Part
Feels
Like
Look
Felt
Same
Just
Being
Orders
Helmet
Many
Thing
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley
People
Priesthood
Says
Caesar
Nobility
Were
Orders
While
Slaves
Two
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.
John Niven
Me
Job
Single
Solo
About
Boss
Take
Feel
Like
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Overweight
Person
Often
Just
Orders
Just One
Thing
There was only one punch. Tony Blair rang me and he said 'Are you OK?' and I said 'Yes', and he said 'Well, what happened?' and I said 'I was just carrying out your orders. You told us to connect with the electorate, so I did.
John Prescott
Me
You
Tony Blair
Punch
Rang
OK
Out
Carrying
Only
Blair
He
Well
Said
Yes
Did
Just
Happened
Orders
Us
Your
Electorate
Connect
Tony
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