Quotes About Command

You are in command. Your job is so challenging, so complex, so never-ending that most people could never come close to understanding the load you carry. You are thrust into impossible situations with little time and usually even less information upon which to make a decision.

Why don't you lie on the bed," he told her. "On your stomach." She did what she was told. He took out his knife and smiled.

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Few qualms of conscience are to be found in the memoirs of those who exercised command in the wars for highly questionable causes that Britain and the U.S.A. waged in the nineteenth century.

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

nothing has contributed so much to the obscuring of Christian truth in the eyes of the heathen, and has hindered so much the diffusion of Christianity through the world, as the disregard of this command by men calling themselves Christians, and the permission of war and violence to Christians.

But a commander in chief, especially at a difficult moment, has always before him not one proposal but dozens simultaneously. And all these proposals, based on strategics and tactics,

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers.

Jesus commands us to love God first, with everything we have, not only because God deserves our love and is worthy of it, but because he knows how crucial it is to our long-term well-being. God knows that whatever we love the most will rule our lives. That's why the Bible counsels us to let the love of Christ control us (see 2 Corinthians 5:14), not the love of lesser things.

I ask only one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now; but if even that is impossible, command me to disappear and I will do it. -Vronsky

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!"

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, "Off with her head! Off with—"

"Now! Now!" cried the Queen. "Faster! Faster!"

It is the system itself that, once set up, gives orders.

If one asks why early man took so long to improve his technical skills and his material facilities, the answer must be: he concentrated upon the greatest of all utilities first. By his command of words he increasingly embraced every aspect of life and gave it significance as part of a larger whole he retained in his mind. Only within that whole could technics itself have significance. The pursuit of significance crowns every other human achievement.

What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance, and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world.

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

If you can command a lot of attention, that's what is valuable, and many in the commercial ecology would like to have a piece of that attention.