
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
We Do What We're Told
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.”
Variant: Max:"So the first thing we're going to do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.
Source: Fang
“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”
As quoted in Freedom in the World: Political Rights & Civil Liberties, 1990-1991 https://web.archive.org/web/20180917224837/https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/Freedom_in_the_World_1990-1991_complete_book.pdf (1991), New York: Freedom House, p. 16
1990s
As quoted in Dame Edith Evans, ch. 12, by Bryan Forbes (1977)
“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”
“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
Source: City of Ashes
“He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.”
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVII, p. 99