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Quotes About Command

The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
~ Thomas Gray
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
~ Michel de Montaigne
To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.
~ John of Damascus
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
~ Stella Gibbons
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!
~ Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
Go, and never darken my towels again
~ Groucho Marx
Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"
~ Henny Youngman
You can pipe anything to anything else, and usually it'll do something. With most of the standard Linux tools, it'll even do what you expect.
~ Scott Simpson
Get out of my chair, dillhole!
~ A.A. Milne
You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.
~ Ilona Andrews, Clean Sweep
Yo! Hold my poodle!
~ Shawn Wayans
He committed the crime of stupidity while under my command, " said Citizen."Oh my, " said Rigg. "They're handing out the death penalty for that these days?
~ Orson Scott Card, Pathfinder
Shoot faceless, white blobs. Roger that Menace, Gamma Kitten One over and out.
~ Alanea Alder, My Savior
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
~ Richard Sennett
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond.
~ Jim Elliot
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
~ George Orwell, 1984
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He who has the gold makes the rules.
~ Tyler Perry
We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.
~ Frederick Tilney
Never tell anyone to go to hell unless you can make 'em go.
~ William J. Clinton
my world is different from all of you because, you all wanna rule your circle and i wanna rule all the circles
~ sambalme
I have converted the machinery of my fate into the servant of my will.
~ MacDonald Harris