Quotes About Command

My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

The Functions of the Executive, that organizations are held together by information rather than by ownership or command.

Reich chancellor!

We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).

We pray to obey God, not to "play God". We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to "let God be God". Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt 7:7).

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

Prosperous, happy, fruitful...the Latin word Felix occurs in such injunctions as that by God himself, who in Genesis 1:21 says to all the creatures of the world, Be fruitful and increase, fill the waters of the seas; and let the birds increase on land. This is the essence of the meaning of Felix, this command from God, this loving command, this manifestation of his desire that we not only live but that we live happily and prosperously.

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.

The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he'd seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken tome to think, to realize that Barney K.'s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon's and its leader's mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.

The new battalion commander had used his eyes but not his head: he'd seen overfamiliarity, but had not taken time to think, to realize that Barney K.'s easygoing attitude with his guys came from the platoon's and its leader's mutual understanding, respect, and trust. With one order, the CO had destroyed it all, and my friend was heartbroken.

combat is no place for martinets.

According to all that God commanded [Noah], so he did. Noah did "according to all that God commanded him, so he did" (Genesis 6:22). Therein lies the key and secret to Noah's faith. When God told him to do something, he did it. He was a man who took God at His word.

This, she realized suddenly, was probably the best squadron command she would ever have—unless

Hamish Alexander stood on Benjamin the Great 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.

Because your balls are even smaller than your brain and you need orders in triplicate before you can take a shit

only a sergeant

Shut off your wind, Jack! And you, too, Blaze! I didn't want you fellows to come here. But as you would come, you've got to shut up. This is my business.

Perhaps it is just as well to be rash and foolish for a while. If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?' afterward than before. Anyway, the force of somewhere in space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.

I make people adjust to what I do, and worry about what I do.

Parcells is one of the all-time great commanders and motivators.

There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

And what is power without recognition? Nothing.