Quotes About Command

Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order. He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

Quidquid Amor Jussit, Non Est Contemnere Tutum.

It is not a question of one General being better than another, but of one General being better than two.

But now there was a classic example of "Order, counter-order, disorder".

Battles are won by slaughter and manœuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manœuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

Death stands at attention, obedient, expectant, ready to serve, ready to shear away the peoples en masse; ready, if called on, to pulverise, without hope of repair, what is left of civilisation. He awaits only the word of command. He awaits it from a frail, bewildered being, long his victim, now—for one occasion only—his Master.

I remember that we had a discussion in the war about unity of command, and that Mr. Lloyd George said, It is not a question of one general being better than another, but of one general being better than two.

General Paris received from the representative of the Admiralty the command of the Royal Naval Division which he was destined to hold with so much honour until he fell grievously wounded in his trenches after three years' war. This was the most important military command exercised in the great war by an officer of the Royal Marines.

no es que un general sea mejor que otro, es que un general es mejor que dos generales».

a letter of the great Duke of Marlborough, in which he said: "To remove a General in the midst of a campaign—that is the mortal stroke.

Now, my maxim would be precisely converse: if you attack with a prospect of superiority, do not grudge employing all the power at your command; excess of victory (14) never yet caused any conqueror one pang of remorse.

The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage

She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time.

Seorang pemimpin Indonesia haruslah seorang sosok yang berwibawa. Dia harus memancarkan kekuatan. Bagi suatu bangsa yang pernah ditaklukan bangsa lain, ini penting sekali.

Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.

You wanted him dead. And your wish is my command.

He indicates a slip of paper on the worktop and I pick it up. It's written in neat block capitals in blue biro. You wanted him dead. And your wish is my command.

La palabra es mi dominio sobre el mundo

But with Taylor in command, he told you what you needed to do here—he had to run everything. You can't do a good job if you do not have a chance to use your imagination or your creativity.

Qui t'en empêche, ô Toi qui règnes sur ma vie, Toi qui peux presque tout, Toi qui, d'un plissement volontaire de tes sourcils, rapproches dans le ciel les nuages ?

The question is not whether you're frightened or not, but whether you or the fear is in control. If you say, 'I won't be frightened,' and then you experience fear, most likely you'll succumb to it, because you're paying attention to it. The correct thing to tell yourself is, 'If I do get frightened, I will stay in command.'

for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.