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Quotes About Command

He ordered killings as easily as he ordered linguine.
~ Kitty Kelley
A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
~ Vince Lombardi
The army is under orders to defend every place.
~ Helmut Kohl
The result showed the wisdom of your orders.
~ John Bigelow
In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what.
~ Gus Grissom
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
~ Vernon Howard
Macht is uitgesteld geweld, gezag is uitgestald geweld.
~ Unknown
France's brilliant general Maurice de Saxe displayed audacious courage at twelve and commanded a regiment by seventeen
~ Tom Reiss
Everybody on Pasha's rug! Now — fly!
~ Tony Abbott
I think you'd better leave." Lockhart stiffened. "I do not believe it is your place to request my departure." Shaking his head, William pushed back his chair. "I'm not requesting anything. I'm telling you to go.
~ Tracie Peterson
If God tells you to do something, you do it. If God tells you to go, you go. Do those two things, and when you're finished in this life, your soul will be in heaven before the devil knows you're dead
~ Tracie Peterson
The Weather In Space Is God being pure force? The wind Or what commands it? When our lives slow And we can hold all that we love, it sprawls In our laps like a gangly doll. When the storm Kicks up and nothing is ours, we go chasing After all we're certain to lose, so alive --- Faces radiant with panic.
~ Tracy K. Smith
Whereas Napoleon I led and controlled throughout, Moltke brought his armies to their starting points and then abdicated his command and unleashed them.
~ Unknown
Shut up dreaded!!!"
~ Unknown
Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!" "SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!" "SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!" the chickens shrilled back.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
YES I SAID LIGHTNING! COWER BEFORE ME, BORING NORMAL DRAGONS!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey? Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
~ Patrick O'Brian
Almost ready, sir,' said the sweating, harassed bosun. 'I'm working the cunt-splice myself.' 'Well,' said Jack, hurrying off to where the stern-chaser hung poised above the Sophie's quarter-deck, ready to plunge through her bottom if gravity could but have its way, 'a simple thing like a cunt-splice will not take a man of war's bosun long, I believe.
~ Patrick O'Brian
You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling strangles, there - no longer a social being at all. It is no doubt the effect of the long-continued habit of command; but it cannot be considered amiable.
~ Patrick O'Brian