Quotes About Commanding

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.

Posey remembered a story he had heard other soldiers telling about Patton's days commanding U.S. Seventh Army in Sicily in 1943. General Patton, upon seeing the Roman ruins at Agrigento, remarked to a local expert, "Seventh Army didn't cause that destruction, did it, sir?" The man replied, "No sir, that happened in the last war." "What war was that?" "The Second Punic War."5

Before McHenry returned to Philadelphia, Washington slipped him a sheet naming the three men he wished to see as his major generals, listed in order: Alexander Hamilton, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and Henry Knox. Writing to Adams, Washington made the appointment of his general officers a precondition for accepting the commanding post.

Elizabeth Harker looked up from behind her desk. She was small, with milk-white skin, small, pointed ears and raven black hair. Her eyes were like a cat's, wide and green. She looked like an elf dressed in black and white, but a kind of elf you wouldn't want to mess with.

o Major Saulo, de botas e esporas, corpulento, quase um obeso, de olhos verdes, misterioso, que só com o olhar mandava um boi bravo se ir de castigo, e que ria, sempre ria — riso grosso, quando irado; riso fino, quando alegre; e riso mudo, de normal.

Ele disse: — "Minha lei, sabe qual é que é, Tatarana? É a sorte dos homens valentes que estou comandando...

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

I always love the domineering, slightly wicked women on screen.

Tyler commanded attention because he was like a tiger. Mesmerizing and possessing something that suggested it was wise not to turn your back on him, any more than it would be a wise move to run.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

I look formidable.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power... Ministers of this, Great Honored Matres of that, a powerful few at the top and many functionaries below. They already are full of adolescent hungers. Like voracious predators, they never consider how they exterminate their prey. A tight relationship: Reduce the numbers of those upon whom you feed and you bring your own structure crashing down.

One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

Who's the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I'm the real queen!

George C. Scott, man, was a powerful dude.

In all willing it is absolutely a question of commanding and obeying, on the basis, as already said, of a social structure composed of many "souls," on which account a philosopher should claim the right to include willing-as-such within the sphere of morals—regarded as the doctrine of the relations of supremacy under which the phenomenon of "life" manifests itself.

With all willing we are dealing simply with commanding and obeying, on the foundation... of a social structure of many souls, which is why a philosopher should exercise the right to conceive willing itself under the horizon of morality: that is, morality understood as a doctrine of the power relations under which the phenomenon life emerges.

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.

Man's mind, as well as his feet and devotion, wander easily, and we are readily given to changing our minds. Our attention wanders always, and we are better at drifting than commanding in our lives.

The rational commanding part, as it alone can stir up and turn itself; so it maketh both itself to be, and everything that happeneth, to appear unto itself, as it will itself.

You know, there are some people who might think it was a good career move to show sympathy for their commanding officer's problems," he said. Then he sighed."But very few of those people were trained by Halt.