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Quotes About Command

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.
~ Eoin Colfer
I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.
~ Eoin Colfer
Listen to me, convict. I have not traveled all this way to listen to your war stories. So shut your trap before I shut it for you. Commander Julius Root
~ Eoin Colfer
Anything else, Butler? The cosh, sir.
~ Eoin Colfer
D'Arvit!" growled Root. (There is no point translating that word, as it would have to be censored.)
~ Eoin Colfer
Holly's mouth was a tight line as she shook her head. "Navy rules, Butler. You're on my boat, you follow my orders." "As I remember, I brought the boat." "Yes, thanks for bringing my boat.
~ Eoin Colfer
But calling up magic when there were arrows flying and chunks of the countryside disappearing was about as easy as going to the toilet on command with a dozen people watching. Who all hated you.
~ Eoin Colfer
Ga Artemis redden. Dat is het allerlaatste bevel dat je van me krijgt, kapitein. En waag het niet dat in de wind te slaan. - Root
~ Eoin Colfer
Marineregels, Butler. Je bent op mijn boot, dus ik geef hier de bevelen.' 'Voor zover ik me kan herinneren heb ik die boot hiernaartoe gebracht.' 'Ja, bedankt dat je mijn boot hebt gebracht.
~ Eoin Colfer
Juliet klapte in haar handen. 'Heb jij eigenlijk ooit wel eens een bevel opgevolgd?' 'Het was een soort non-bevel en ik volg trouwens alleen bevelen op als ze redelijk zijn.' - Holly
~ Eoin Colfer
Root nodded, twisting a thick cigar into the hole beneath his nose.
~ Eoin Colfer
One, don't call me Julius. Two, do what I say, horsey boy, or I'll have your budget slashed. And three, what in Frond's name is the cancan?
~ Eoin Colfer
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
~ Epictetus
Some things are in our control and others not. Things inour control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in aword, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our controlare body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word,whatever are not our own actions. The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained,unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish,restrained, belonging to others.
~ Epictetus
The rabid extremist in present-day Asia is usually a man of some education who has a horror of manual labor and who develops a mortal hatred for a social order that denies him a position of command.
~ Eric Hoffer
Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) planes would quickly get off the ground, climb steeply, and send an emergency war order on a very-low-frequency radio, using an antenna five miles long. SAC began to develop a Post Attack Command and Control System. It would rely on airborne command posts, a command post on a train, a command post at the bottom of an abandoned gold mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, and a command post, known as The Notch, inside Bare Mountain, near Amherst, Massachusetts. The
~ Eric Schlosser
Silentiary (n.) An official whose job it is to command silence. I would like to have my very own silentiary, someone I can bring to the library and to the apartment next door. Sitzfleisch
~ Ammon Shea
that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.
~ Amy Lane
Truth obeys no one. That is why it is free, and freeing. And since there is nothing other than truth, it commands no one, either. To what or to whom could it give orders? At such times, we have neither God nor master.
~ André Comte-Sponville
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
~ Andre Malraux
Weak legs command, Gil says. Strong legs obey.
~ Andre Agassi
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
~ Orville Wright
We sometimes hear the argument, 'All the world' thinks this, or does that, given as a reason for our doing likewise; but that is an argument that should have no weight with the Christian, who is commanded not to be conformed to the world.
~ Hudson Taylor
My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation.
~ Chesley Sullenberger