
“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
Source: City of Ashes
To his staffers, as quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591
“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”
Source: City of Ashes
“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”
“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”
Attributed to Wieschaus in Together to Fly http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S19/55/05Q60/index.xml?section=science
“Don't tell me what I should do until you show me what you can do.”
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 49]
From Grace EPK (Electronic Press Kit)
“Do you want to tell me what this is about, or should I just call the police?”
"And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see."
Clary and Jace, pg. 44
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)