take orders

Verb

Meaning

be ordained; enter the Christian ministry

receive and be expected to follow directions or commands

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour 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. J. B. Priestley

I grew up pretty peacefully, in that Eastern way. You easily solve problems, believe in harmony. Reduce conflicts, take orders until one day you give orders. Ang Lee

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders. David Hockney

I want men who, like you, would not take orders even if I should give them. I do not want to be a god, Crag, even though I have some powers beyond mankind's; I would not let my new world be colonized by people who might even be tempted to obey me. Fredric Brown

I wasn't made to take orders. My grandmother used to tell me: 'Laws are for idiots.' She was right. Marjane Satrapi

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