Quotes About Command
it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" 1 Peter 1:16 We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness.
~ Oswald Chambers
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He comes where He commands us to leave.
~ Oswald Chambers
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In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]
~ Unknown
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OSBOURNE!' he shouted. 'YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO YOURSELF AND TO THIS SCHOOL. BRING ME A SHOE.' The room went so quiet you could have heard a mouse fart.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
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Fifty men will accompany you, fighting under your command." "I can't take them,' said Beckram. "Haverness only has leave for a hundred men. I believe I'm the eighty-fifth." "You'll take them," said Duraugh, standing up. "The Blue Guard's mottos is 'We fight as one." You will only be one.
~ Patricia Briggs
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He looked down at Anna. "I want you to take Walter and drive to Kennewick, Washington, where my brother is." She folded her arms and gave him her stubborn look. "No. And don't try that again. I felt that push.
~ Patricia Briggs
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I'm the King, and I say you go to the dungeon instead of fighting wizards, and no argument.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
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The significance of the regathering of Israel? Only the declaration to a blind and deaf world to see and hear that King of Kings and Lord of Lords is preparing to come back. Will any see and take heed? The scriptures from Matthew, above, signal that it is the "season" in which he is to come, and the consistent charge from our Lord is to "watch". Are you watching as I am, wondering when and how the outcome will be? It is, after all, the command of our Lord.
~ Unknown
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As long as I hold it as long as I use it, the knife lives, lives in order to take life, but it has to be commanded, it has to have me to tell it to kill, and it wants to, it wants to plunge and thrust and cut and stab and gouge, but I have to want it to as well, my will has to join with its will. I'm the one who allows it and I'm the one responsible.
~ Patrick Ness
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Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse. 'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.
~ Patrick Ness
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Was it prediction? Had she had a proper vision? Or was it a command, as it so often feels in the case of the prophetic? When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?
~ Patrick Ness
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Felurian had a way of making requests that took some getting used to. I'd discovered that unless I was steeling myself to resist, I'd find myself automatically doing whatever it was she asked of me. It wasn't that she spoke with authority. Her voice was too soft and edgeless to carry the weight of command. She did not demand or cajole. When she spoke, it was matter-of-fact. As if she couldn't imagine a world in which you
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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By earth and stone, I abjure you!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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Now!" Elodin shouted without preamble. "Tell me things!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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I called the lightning and it came.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
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He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.
~ Patrick Süskind
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So we see according to God's command, almond flowers blossomed on Aaron's staff representing the tribe of Levi amongst the twelve tribes who had placed their staffs; through this it proved to them that the priesthood was given to the house of Aaron by God (Numbers 17:1-10). When Aaron died at the age of 123
~ Unknown
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John the Skrull: (as Merlyn) "Here, listen. It's me, Merlyn, the magic man. There's no need for all this conflict, like. I command you to--" Tink: "Suck my tits, you fairy fuckers!" John the Skrull: "I was going to say 'give peace a chance'...
~ Unknown
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Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.
~ Unknown
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Thrasymachus said it was just a word invented by the victors to rule the losers. Like, we won the war; now we make the laws.
~ Paul Levine
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Vader made most of the naval officers he encountered uncomfortable. To them, he was a towering dark figure outside their chain of command who had emerged from nowhere and possessed powers they did not understand.
~ Paul S. Kemp
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Alert your flight teams," he said to Luitt. "Be ready to scramble your V-wings." "What? Why?" Luitt asked, looking from Vader to the Emperor. "The shields are still up." "Likely not for much longer," Vader said. "Do as Lord Vader commands," said the Emperor, putting just enough power in his tone to quail everyone on the bridge.
~ Paul S. Kemp
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I've heard that the regular officers hate him, but the Stormtrooper Corps almost worships him.
~ Paul S. Kemp
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She was waiting for more than permission, since she already had permission. She was waiting for an order.
~ Pauline Réage
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