Quotes About Command

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

Why, I hold fate Clasped in my fist, and could command the course Of time's eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.

I am in control at all times.

Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

Red Leader to Red One. Come in Red One!

Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.

But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done.

Do as I tell you,' shouted Annabelle, 'or I shall pinch you and pinch you until you are black and blue.

Never had a general so effectively willed away the facts.

Against the certainties of the American command, the truth never stood a chance.

Leadership was partly showmanship, and Westy neglected no means of projecting confidence, strength, and moxie.

A thorough reading of the Gospels would reveal that perhaps the most persistent command from God is not about sex or violence or a lack of religious practice but rather about not being afraid.

Get your sorry ass down to Saint Vincent's, they've got a fast emergency room. Get yourself stitched up and get yourself back here in two fucking hours!

Não era isto que eu queria de um subchefe. Se os cozinheiros não o respeitavam, eu dizer-lhes que o tipo os podia despedir não ia criar esse respeito.

Power, power, everybody like wants power

But you could viddy a like gleam in his glazzies, because now he would be taking over for this nochy. Power power, everybody like wants power.

When the British started shooting, he simply bellowed the order 'Cease fire' in his impeccable English, which they did, until Stauffenberg's men were safely out of the way. Then Stauffenberg ordered the British to start shooting again, which they did, this time at each other, because they had had the Germans caught in a crossfire.

French forces remained under SHAEF command as a result of Eisenhower's compromise, but headaches in dealing with the French authorities persisted. Eisenhower subsequently complained that the French 'next to the weather . . . have caused me more trouble in this war than any other single factor'. SHAEF

Hemingway, eager not to miss the big battle even though he was suffering from influenza, managed to reach Colonel Buck Lanham's command post near Rodenbourg. The house had belonged to a priest suspected of being a German sympathizer. Hemingway took great delight in drinking a stock of communion wine and then refilling the bottles with his own urine. He claimed to have relabelled them 'Schloss Hemingstein 1944' and later drank from one by mistake.

Field Marshal Brooke once wrote in his diary: 'It is astonishing how petty and small men can be in connection with questions of command.