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Quotes About Command

The politicians and generals and kings lived in the limelight and enjoyed the glory, while the men of money stayed in the background and gave the orders, politely when possible, but making sure they would be obeyed.
~ Upton Sinclair
One man decides, and the rest obey.
~ Upton Sinclair
Zoebarev, tweede luitenant – bevelhebber over de infanteristen
~ Vasily Grossman
Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!
~ Victor Hugo
America has been a four-hundred-year-long natural experiment testing how religion develops with and without a powerful central organization. In other words, a big reason American Catholics are more reality-based than Protestants is because tenured grown-ups, from the Vatican on down, have consistently been in command, tamping down and pinching off undesirable offshoots.
~ Kurt Andersen
Then it hits me.... And it hits me with the force of a blow. I am maybe fifteen years old. I am a girl. I am also acting lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and, by the Naval Rules and Regulations as regards the chain of command, I am in command of His Majesty's Ship Wolverine .
~ L.A. Meyer
You come back and you do it right now," Morgead bellowed in her ears and in her mind. "Right now! Do you hear me?
~ L.J. Smith
The mind sees, the will commands, the man acts. What is it then to act? To act is to produce something. If you have produced nothing--if no result has been the fruit of your will, you have done nothing.
~ lacordaire henri dominique ii
There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.
~ Laini Taylor
Here was no storm, no fury. There was some new quiet in her, but it didn't shrink or wilt her. Rather, it seemed to enlarge her. She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.
~ Laini Taylor
She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and that was a dangerous thing.
~ Laini Taylor
Every time you try to give command to buy or sale your share today, sbicap brokerage firm's web trading platform shows Page Unresponsive-You can wait for it to become responsive or exit the page This means some major rise or fall or fluctuation in stock market price will take place
~ Lakshheish M Patel
Since the stock market opening time, SBI Cap web trading platform is not working today while market is on downward trend. Its buy key work only when market is on up price but it does not take SALE command then and thus clients losses mount
~ Lakshheish M Patel
They landed at Simon's feet. "Take your clothes and go!" Isabelle shouted.
~ Cassandra Clare
Ducks, embrace me as your king!"--James Herondale.
~ Cassandra Clare
Stay here!" he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal. I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.
~ Cate Tiernan
You can talk to me, too." "I do!" "But you say so little." "Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman." "What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?
~ Catherine Asaro
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
~ Catherine the Great
She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Carthago delenda est
~ Cato
Como diz Fausto: «Quem comanda deve encontrar a sua felicidade no comando.»
~ Giuliano da Empoli
Power tires only those who do not have it.
~ Giulio Andreotti
Rauve, you son of a..."  Pagan growled in disapproval, his words punctuated by hacks of his sword. "Does...no one...heed my...commands?"  His
~ Glynnis Campbell
I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if it is in the middle of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will be peace.
~ Golda Meir