Quotes About Command

The only thing I command is respect.

We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.

I think we need more idiot control.

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Sit!' -Kagome (to InuYasha and he falls.)

My name is authority so don't ever mess with me, because if you do, you'll get my power.

If our intellectual part is common, the reason also, in respect of which we are rational beings, is common: if this is so, common also is the reason which commands us what to do, and what not to do;

Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power.

When near his death, being asked by the tribune for the watchword, he said, Go to the rising sun, for I am setting.

She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent. It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.

The time is gonna fly! You better make sure you're the pilot!

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

perhaps an inch or two taller than Monk, and extremely handsome. His face was lean and narrow, but with fine, dark eyes, a long nose and a chiseled mouth. Apart from his features, there was a quickness of intelligence in him, lines of wit and laughter around his mouth and a hint of temper between his brows. It was the face of a proud man of unusual charm and, Monk guessed, a considerable ability to command others.

When Christ commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves, the 'self' part was just as important. We forget that at a terrible price.

Deep in my mind a thought did flash for a moment that one who commands must of necessity be wildly imperfect, boldly pragmatic, capable of compromises impossible for the truly wise and the truly good.

Those who desire power want to

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloak. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward.

Who were the men who did this? Guido demanded suddenly. Tonio was putting on his cloack. He looked up as if already in deep thought. Fools, he answered, at the command of a coward. page 139