Command Quotes

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

It is important to remember that when it comes to law, computers never make copies, only human beings make copies. Computers are given commands, not permission. Only people can be given permission.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a solid grasp and a perfect command.

The Church desperately needs people of joy and zeal. Show me a church that is consistently obedient to this single command, and I will show you a church that is turning its world upside down.

The command to be free is a double bind

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Officers in command of colored troops are in constant habit of pressing all able-bodied slaves into the military service of the U.S.

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

I obey my own commands about as often as others do.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

Contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, the Soviet economy is proof that a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.

You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well.

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

Science boosts its claim to truth by its spectacular ability to make matter and energy jump through hoops on command, and to predict what will happen and when.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

If you walk with Jesus, he's gonna save your soul. You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole. He's got the fire and the fury at his command.

It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.

It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.

A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.