Quotes About Command

To run, to work, the law commands, The gospel gives me feet and hands. The one requires that I obey, The other does the power convey.

CREONTE Come posso sbagliare se obbedisco al mio stesso comando?» «EMONE Perché calpesti ciò che spetta agli dèi.»

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

What you cannot enforce, do not command!

By all means. And this time, I assume, even you will obey the god's decrees.

It's no city at all, owned by one man alone.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

When you are clear on your calling, you command the universe to submit to your voice

God so commanded, and left that commandSole daughter of his voice; the rest, we liveLaw to ourselves, our reason is our law.

His words… like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.

Sometimes people ask: should we pursue obedience to God or joy in God? Edwards would answer: The question involves a category confusion. It's like asking: should I pursue fruit or apples? Obedience is doing what we are told. And we are told to delight ourselves in the Lord. Therefore pursuing joy in God is obedience. In

Worship is nothing less than obedience to the command of God: "Delight yourself in the Lord"!

If one thinks like the Jihadists, one understands their actions, past, present, and future, from the belief that Muhammad has demanded: "I command by Allah to go fight all the people of the world until they confess there is no God but Allah, and I am his messenger…" (From the Hadith, recorded by Sahih Al-Bukhari, Islam and Terrorism, Dr. Gabriel).

I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road." Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

He ruleth all the roost.

Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.

Is it possible that those who sit atop the social bell curve represent the worst of evolution's products, not its best? Have the fools among us who just don't get it risen up and taken command?

Outwardly, she did not lack self-confidence. Only she knew how frightened and vulnerable she was beneath it all. It was her secret-one she kept so well that she fooled one of the NASA psychologists into giving her command of a ship.

Dominate. Intimidate. Control."241

Finch turned to the other men and without raising his voice managed to call out to them.

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.