Quotes About Command

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children.

To the rear, sir—he's lost his leg!

We ordered him peremptorily to sit down with us.

Old war-worn captains are hard-headed, practical men. They do not easily believe in the ability of ignorant children to plan campaigns and command armies. No general that ever lived could have taken Joan seriously (militarily) before she raised the siege of Orleans and followed it with the great campaign of the Loire.

Always obey your superiors, if you have any.

For some reason, I've been thinking more and more about my mother and the way her life failed her, humiliated her with impulses beyond her command, broke her with year after year of the same.

even as instinct commands me to run. But by then it will already be too late. The distance far too great to cover. As if there ever really was a place to hide.

When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?

Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. Jesus is not an impractical idealist: he is the practical realist.

Some have been tempted to revise Jesus' command to read, Go ye into all the world, keep your blood pressure down, and, lo, I will make you a well-adjusted personality.

I am convinced that if we succumb to the temptation to use violence in our struggle for freedom, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and our chief legacy to them will be a never-ending reign of chaos. A Voice, echoing through the corridors of time, says to every intemperate Peter, Put down thy sword. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations that failed to follow Christ's command.

The signals organization of Browning's tactical headquarters was not complete; many extra men and much signals equipment had to be added during the next few days – much of it from American sources. On landing in Holland, he would be out of touch with two-thirds of his command unless his signals organization worked perfectly

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It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

You do not rush to obey those who seek to command you. Your independence makes people puzzle over you.

Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: I will it!

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

Get out of here, Antonia. Now." There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it.

King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You

Whoever rules the waves rules the world. —Alfred Thayer Mahan Six

I read about a number of generals and colonels who are said to have wandered about exhorting the troops to advance. That must have been very inspirational! I suspect, however, that the men were more interested and more impressed by junior officers and NCOs who were willing to lead them rather than having some general pointing out the direction in which they should go.

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.