Quotes About Command

He heard a rushing of feet and a great terrible voice calling 'All hands, all hands ahoy! Out or down! Out or down! Rouse and bitt! Rise and shine! Show a leg there! Out or down! Here I come, with a sharp knife and a clear conscience!

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

A sailor, who may be absent for years, throws impossible strains on his wife. If she is a woman of any degree of temperament at all there is of course the question of chastity; and in either case there is that of command or perhaps I should say of decision.

A commander is obeyed by his officers because he is himself obeying; the thing is not in its essence personal; and so down. If he does not obey, the chain weakens. How grave I am, for all love.

Or take the Sophie,' cried the master, anxious to bring his crumb of comfort. 'She's rightly a brig, you know, Doctor, with her two masts.' He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number. 'But the minute Captain Aubrey sets foot in her, why, she too becomes a sloop; for a brig is a lieutenant's command.

while the officers in command of the regiments that must be moved are tolerably venal men, and we have ample funds at hand. Yet at the same time certain forms must still be observed: there must be persuasion, a gentle violence, before they can decently fall.

Would you expect a mutiny?' 'Mutiny in the sense of outright revolt and refusal of command? No. But from some of the people I expect muttering, discontent, ill-will; and nothing makes work slower or more inefficient or more unsafe than ill-will and its perpetual quarrels.

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

The Words, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15)

Right now Jabba just said "Boska," and when the boss says boska, we boska.

Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures.

Lo que él le pedía, ella lo deseaba inmediatamente sólo porque él se lo pedía.

Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy.

em," she said softly. "That guy with the sexy voice told 'em to get ready

I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said. Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side. When may I paint a picture of my own? Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. When I can no longer command you.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

You're mine, Wasp

Nobody understands how hard it is, being captain.