In our post-everything culture, obey has become a four-letter word. Obeying is for wimps. Obeying is for people who didn’t do well enough on their SATs to write their own rules. Only the weak and the feeble and the young–-well, not even the young anymore–-need to obey. Funny, because the root of the word obey is from the French verb meaning “to listen, or to give ear to.” It was never intended as a militant word, but one of hearing, of understanding. Of getting it. For a world obsessed with staying in constant communication, we aren’t really very good listeners. . Heather Choate Davis
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) - Eve Ensler
  2. You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity. - Criss Jami
  3. Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people. - Tamora Pierce
  4. I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely. - Cassandra Clare
  5. The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior--or lack of integrity--a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain." - Tara Leigh's therapist (p.118) - Tara Leigh Cobble
More Quotes By Heather Choate Davis
  1. The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.
  2. Our own egos are so fragile we cannot bear to give our lives to the raising of children only to have them become ordinary people. There, I said it. The worst thing a 21st-century child of interesting parents could be: ordinary. Like us.
  3. We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they...
  4. Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore–only Gifted and Disposable?
  5. We fluff them and fold them and nudge them and enhance them and bind them and break them and embellish them beyond measure; then, as we drive them up to the college interviews that they’ve heard since birth are the gateway to the lives they...
Related Topics