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Quotes About Commands

O my GOD, since Thou art with me, and I must now, in obedience to Thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, I beseech Thee to grant me the grace to continue in Thy Presence; and to this end do Thou prosper me with Thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections.
~ Brother Lawrence
Simple commands, positive reinforcement, show no fear: More than a quarter century after her apprenticeship with Romanian tiger tamer, Sharon was still using his tenets to save the last great cats in the Western Hemisphere.
~ Bruce Barcott
God's care precedes his commands.
~ Bryan Chapell
All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you...!
~ Byron Caldwell Smith
the crucial step in programming is not the actual act of mechanically typing commands into a computer, but instead crafting the underlying solution that is then translated into code.
~ Cal newport
Gamers are horrible roommates because they monopolize the TV with something less watchable than 'The Mob Doctor' and, if that wasn't irritating enough, have the audacity to scream combat commands through a head set.
~ Sean Evans
Before Stuxnet's malicious commands went into action, the malware sat patiently on the PLC for about two weeks, sometimes longer, recording legitimate operations as the controller sent status reports back to monitoring stations. Then when Stuxnet's malicious commands leapt into action, the malware replayed the recorded data back to operators to blind them to anything amiss on the machines
~ Kim Zetter
Behold the life at ease; it drifts,The sharpened life commands its course.
~ George Meredith
His mouth would have given despair to even the drollest of fools; it was a mouth made for frowns and scowls and sharply worded commands, all thin pale lips and clenched muscles, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile and had never known how to laugh
~ George R.R. Martin
If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
~ George Whitefield
Pronounces the name of everything created?' In many Creation myths, to name a thing is to create it. He is referred to, in various myths, as 'expert who instituted incantations,' 'word-rich,' 'Enki, master of all the right commands,' as Kramer and Maier have it, 'His word can bring order where there had been only chaos and introduce disorder where there had been harmony.
~ Neal Stephenson
Cruel Prince James strode into the chamber, his cape flashing behind him and his terrible, terrible mustache askew with rage," Lucie narrated the moment James walked through the door. "Does it need be said twice that it's terrible?" James said. "He required a hot beverage to soothe his throat, parched from barking out his wicked commands all day. Tea, he thought, yes, tea and revenge." "I'll just go put the kettle on," James sighed.
~ Cassandra Clare
Given the chance, others will set our priorities for us. Yet God specifically has a calling for each of us that will only come from Him. To discern this, we need wisdom. Without God's wisdom, we make decisions on facts and feelings. To find wisdom, I need to silence the demands of many, to hear the commands of One.
~ Glynnis Whitwer
My son, from whence this madness, this neglect Of my commands, and those whom I protect? Why this unmanly rage? Recall to mind Whom you forsake, what pledges leave behind.
~ Virgil
drums songs weren't for fun. In a noisy battle, the officers couldn't just shout out their orders; their voices would be drowned out by the explosions. It was those different rat, tat, tats that told the men which way to turn, how fast to march, when to load their muskets, and when to shoot.
~ Lauren Tarshis
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.
~ David Souter
To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids us repent—and why? That our sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19. He commands us to believe—and why? That we may be saved. Acts 16:31. There is love in every command. It is as if a king should bid one of his subjects dig in a gold mine, and then keep the gold for himself.
~ Thomas Watson
I feel like when I listen to music nowadays, it's a lot of commands. It's a lot of demands. Do this dance, or feel like this. It's not like, 'how do you feel?'
~ Omarion
With kangaroos, you say 'Sit!' and they start boxing with you. They're nuts!
~ Jerry O'Connell
love throughout John's Gospel and his Epistles is consistently defined in terms of obedience and keeping God's commands
~ Craig L. Blomberg
Both parties continued as violent as if they could have pleaded the distinct commands of Heaven to justify their intolerance
~ Walter Scott
Imam M?lik said that to seek out Paradise is more than acceptable, though the motivation behind worship should ultimately be solely for the sake of God and fulfillment of His commands.
~ Hamza Yusuf
In the particular study reviewed by Blass that focused on religious dispositional variables, those that scored high on many of the religious variables were more accepting of the commands of an authority than were those who scored lower or were indiscriminately antireligious.
~ James Waller