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Quotes About Command

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit.
~ John Knox
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
~ Colin Fletcher
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
~ Walt Whitman
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
~ William Butler Yeats
Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
~ Ice Cube
You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
~ Rhonda Byrne
When I pointed out this fallacy in her thought process, however, all she said was, "Just do it," only not the way they say it in Nike ads. She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too.
~ Jenny Carroll
Riding is about bending it to your will, and public riding is to demonstrate that authority.
~ Jeremy Paxman
Surprise is an event that occurs in the mind of an enemy commander.
~ Jerry Pournelle
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
~ Jerry Rubin
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Bir emir bu sessiz kiÅŸileri bizim düÅŸman?m?z yapt?. Bir emir onlar? dostumuz yapabilirdi. Hiçbirimizi tan?mayan birkaç kiÅŸi, herhangi bir masan?n çevresinde toplan?p bir yaz?y? imzalad?lar. BaÅŸka zaman olsa bütün dünyan?n hakaretini ve cezas?n? üstüne çekecek olan bu yaz?, bizler için y?llarca en yüksek amaç yerine geçecek.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Cilv?ks var b?t atbild?gs vien?gi par to, ko pats nodar?jis. Un ar? tikai tad, ja tas nav dar?ts p?c pav?les.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Ein Befehl hat diese stillen Gestalten zu unsern Feinden gemacht; ein Befehl könnte sie in unsere Freunde verwandeln. An irgendeinem Tisch wird ein Schriftstück von einigen Leuten unterzeichnet, die keiner von uns kennt, und jahrelang ist unser höchstes Ziel das, worauf sonst die Verachtung der Welt und ihre höchste Strafe ruht.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
At one point during the Holmes investigation Chicago's chief of police told a Tribune reporter he'd just as soon have a squad of reporters under his command as detectives.
~ Erik Larson
But far more than France was at stake, he added. He raised the specter of Britain, too, succumbing to Hitler's influence and warned that a new and pro-German government might then replace his own. "If we go down you may have a United States of Europe under the Nazi command far more numerous, far stronger, far better armed than the New World.
~ Erik Larson
Oliver Cromwell in 1653: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing! Depart, I say, and let us have done with you! In the name of God, go!
~ Erik Larson
But you will ride it—instead of being driven before it—Thank Heaven that you are there, & at the helm of our destiny
~ Erik Larson
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
~ Erik Larson
Turner, that day, was master of one of the great greyhounds of the North Atlantic—and looked the part.
~ Erik Larson