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Quotes About Command

Who died and put you in charge?' Moon Shadow demanded, his tail-tip twitching in annoyance. 'Shaded Moss, actually,' Tall Shadow replied.
~ Erin Hunter
Sit on him if you have to.
~ Erin Hunter
Bramblestar mewed
~ Erin Hunter
In many cases the office of captain was more or less automatically voted to the person who had been most active in raising the company; to some extent this was true also in the choice of colonels.
~ Bell Irvin Wiley
Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
Shut up! Sit Down!
~ Ben Stern
COMMMMANNNNNNNDOOOOOO
~ Ben Thompson
George Washington, Commander of the American armies, who, like Joshua of old, commanded the sun and the moon to stand still, and they obeyed him.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He that cannot obey cannot command.
~ Benjamin Franklin
sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois,
~ Benjamin Franklin
India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.
~ Gary Ackerman
Safer to be feared than loved.
~ Gillian Flynn
Noelle forced the crowd to part for
~ Gillian Flynn
The lower ranks have the privilege of questioning the sanity and competence of their commanders. It's the mortar holding an army together.
~ Glen Cook
scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.
~ Glen Cook
Power knows power.
~ Gloria Naylor
Mr. Huber was 10 percent teacher and 90 percent prison guard, hard-muscled and tough. He hauled Griffin's foot out of the garbage, dropped the crumpled paper airplane in its place, and uttered a single word: "Sit.
~ Gordon Korman
and a thick mustache calmly gestured for them to get in. Amy
~ Gordon Korman
All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices...
~ Grant Morrison
El apocalipsis queda anulado. Hasta que yo lo diga.
~ Grant Morrison
What are Captain
~ Greg Bear
Has anybody even talked to Dr. Shields yet? Willie shrugged. Then his radio crackled again. We've set up the command post in the Shieldses' front yard, under a stand of trees. Tell Carl to get his ass up here, ricky-tick. You heard the man, said Willie. Carl exhaled long and slow, trying to prepare himself for the blast of testosterone he would encounter a few hundred yards up the street.
~ Greg Iles
In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
~ J. F. C. Fuller
I'm not worried. I'm in control.
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo