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Quotes About Command

Cardan puts up a hand. 'No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end.' His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. 'Leave us. I tire of the lot of you.' I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance.
~ Holly Black
She didn't have to command me, Jude. She didn't have to use any magic. I trust you. I trusted you.
~ Holly Black
Grima Mog whirls away, battling three knights from the Court of Teeth. She must have known them once, must have commanded them, but she fights them just the same.
~ Holly Black
KILL THE BEARER OF THIS MESSAGE.
~ Holly Black
You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.
~ Holly Black
Get down on your knees, Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it pretty. Flowery. Worthy of me.
~ Holly Black
True power isn't granted. True power can't be taken away.
~ Holly Black
Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men.
~ Homer
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
~ Honore de Balzac
What is life, my dear fellow, if you let a woman be the whole of it? A boat you can't command,
~ Honore de Balzac
Power brings its own legitimacy.
~ Lian Hearn
Nigga we in charge, baby put me in charge, and Im just murdering niggas free of charge.
~ Lil Wayne
All of math is mine.
~ Unknown
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
~ Lionel Trilling
Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.
~ Lisa Kleypas
If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.
~ Lisa Kleypas
When you have Van Gaal in charge, it is a fact that there is fear in his team. The players have a fear for mister Van Gaal. That is not always good.
~ Ronald Koeman
There are things that are in your control... And then there's a variety of things that are not in your control.
~ Francis X. Suarez
I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope.
~ Norman Davies
What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.
~ Jose Carreras
Guys that are striking out 200 times, like Joey Gallo - in 1990 he would have hit 75 home runs every year because he's facing guys with an average velocity of 90 miles an hour, good command and O.K. breaking balls.
~ Trevor Bauer
To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.
~ Andre Carson
No, you don't understand. She told me to get you back. She's made up her mind and I don't dare disobey. She hits very hard.
~ Jeff Lindsay
he is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
~ Jeff Shaara