Quotes About Command

I know people think that I always play these characters who are in control and can chop someone's head off with a look.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

TK-421, why aren't you at your post?

Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have this day done one thing because He said, Do it, or once abstained because He said, Do not do it. It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.

If you do not obey Him, you will not know Him. You will tell me, some of you, that I am always beating that anvil–that obedience to Christ is Christianity. Let me die insisting upon it. For my Lord insists upon it.

How to be radiant Who obeys, shines.

There are women, returned my uncle, some of them of the most admired, who are slaves to a demoniacal love of power. The very pleasure of their consciousness consists in the knowledge that they have power--not power to do things, but power to make other people do things. [Uncle; Flight of the Shadow]

Power is not a means; it is an end.

The command of the old despotisms was Thou shalt not. The command of the totalitarians was Thou shalt. Our command is Thou art.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.

The command of the old despotisms was Thou shalt not. The command of the totalitarians was Thou shalt. Our command is Thou are.

When I say drop your pants and show me the moon, I'm not just whistling Dixie!

I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.

His lordship detested independently-minded subordinates. It was not the business of his officers to think for themselves.

Rot his black soul! fumed Rupert. The devil's in it now and no mistake. A horse, Fletcher, a horse! Horse sir? Burn it, would I want a cow? Horse, man, and quickly!

She gathered up the reins, and signed to her tiger to jump up behind.

You see that even the enemy did not dare to declare war against us till they had seized our generals, for they were sensible that, while we had commanders and yielded obedience to them, we were able to conquer them; but, having seized our commanders, they concluded that we should, from a want of command and discipline, be destroyed.

Till the age of 40, actors are pleasing others, but after that is the time to command characters and ask for what we want from script writers.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

I think my writing changed when I put 'the' in front of my titles. It had more command.

Buy a commercial puppy play pole or make one yourself by tying your puppy's favorite toy to a pole or stick. Bounce the toy along as you say to your puppy, "Go get your toy!" If your puppy loves to tug, teach them to release on the word Give by periodically waving a smelly treat in front of their nose and rewarding them as they release the toy.