Command Quotes

Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command and recruit the best and brightest Americans.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.

[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.

When you can command the nagual you have a great deal of power, and people know it intuitively. They feel if they can plunge themselves into the nagual they can get anything they want in the tonal.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

The command of custome is great.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

The inner eye does not see upon command.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

All nations agree that ISAF and OEF need to work more closely together, and that when NATO takes over operations throughout the country that there must be unity of command.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.