Quotes About Command

Then he raised his hand as he faced the bull and commanded him to go down with the death that he had placed inside him. Bitter lines around the mouth are the first sign of defeat.

Thomas Hudson had the feeling that this had happened before in a bad dream. They had run many difficult channels. But this was another thing that had happened sometime in his life. Perhaps it had happened all his life. But now it was happening with such an intensification that he felt both in command and at the same time the prisoner of it.

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

The President?" "No. Somebody with real power.

so-called leadership is characterized by a pathological reacting to the impressions of the moment and a total lack of any understanding of the command machinery and its possibilities.4 Halder told Lieutenant-General Kurt Dittmar of OKH that Hitler 'was a mystic, who tended to discount, even when he did not disregard, all the

Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre,' he wrote in The World Crisis. 'The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

I have beaten the Russian and Austrian army commanded by the two emperors. I am a little tired.

the rich decurion with a good chance of becoming a centurion shouted to the halberdiers.

Jesus didn't command his followers to feel something. He commanded them to do some things.

Come on, hurry up," Marcia snapped impatiently at the spiral stairs. Taking her at her word, the stairs sped up to double daytime speed,

Lieve help,' mopperde Marcia. Ze gaf de draak nog een duw. 'Gá nou, lui mormel!

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about.

When you whisper about something, it's too big, and you can't get it under control and take control of it.

As of now, I am in control here in the White House.

When he ran a private company, one he owned, Trump could command all its constituent parts to do his bidding and make the rules himself. You'd think by his fourth year in the White House, he would have learned that the presidency doesn't work that way. But obviously he hasn't.

I'd rather rule the world now than be prime minister.

I'm the Princess of The Authority.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

All of us wish for a dignity that commands respect. But few have it.

I don't like to direct myself.