Quotes About Command

The damn bells kept ringing through the fog. Bud mumbled a command to his music system, a phased acoustical array splayed across both eardrums like the seeds on a strawberry. The volume went up but couldn't scour away the deep tones of the carillon, which

Edzard screamed at the men on the starboard side, threatening to throw them overboard if they didn't match the pace of the port team.

I just about got this planet all sewn up." Rife delivers this line with an incredibly sardonic and contemptuous twang, the exaggerated accent of a cowboy who suspects that some Yankee pencilneck is looking down his nose at him.

Authority does not increase with volume. We

I'm not pushy, but Major Johnson was in command now, so I had to strike the right balance between romance and sex.

He sank into an apathy of heat and dust and sweat, and joined the morose ten per cent of men in South Fast Asia Command whose wives had let them down.

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both

one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being constantly occupied with such meditations, it resulted, that when in command no complication could ever present itself with which he was not prepared to deal.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Such men depend solely upon two very uncertain and unstable things: the will and the Fortune of him who granted them the state. But they do not know how, and are unable, to maintain their position. They do not know how to hold their state, since if men are not of great intelligence and virtue, it is not reasonable that they should know how to command, having always lived as private citizens.

If his ministers are capable and loyal, people will always reckon a ruler astute, because he was able to recognize their ability and command their loyalty. When they are not, people will always have reason to criticize, because the first mistake the ruler made was in his choice of ministers. Everyone

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command. One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. Politics have no relation to morals

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to feared than loved.

El príncipe no ha de tener otro objeto, ni abrigar otro propósito, ni cultivar otro arte, que el que enseña, el orden y la disciplina de los ejércitos, porque es el único que se espera ver ejercido por el que manda.

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.

How I shall miss Alan Rickman, his beautiful command of English, and a voice he played like a musical instrument.

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.

He pulled the tiller and shouted the words, Ready about ... LEE HO! I stared at him incredulously. What sort of things was that for one sensible adult to shout at another?

When Jackson used that particular tone of voice, men died, pure and simple.

Fine, Julian agreed grudgingly. But if that idiot Barack happens by with his hangdog look, tell him to keep going.

Lorraine. Sivamet. Breathe with me. Turn around. There was a command in his voice. Steel. One didn't dare disobey.