Quotes About Command

We command the fire and the serpents and the stinging insects, but we cannot wield the power that sends fever away.

That's the damn thing about falling in love with your second-in-command," and resumed his stride up to the balcony with its row of arched doors, Starhawk unsmiling at his heels. "They are with you too long and they know you too well.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

And don't stand there gawping at me like a sucking duck!' she went on crossly, waving the ladle at Emma. 'Get a move on with yer, now that yer are here, lass! We've no time ter be wasting today.

The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.

Jesus says, "You have heard it said, 'Whoever divorces his wife should give her a certificate of divorce' [a command found in Deut. 24:1], but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife for reason other than sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery." It is hard to see how one can follow Moses' command to give a certificate of divorce, if in fact divorce is not an option.

Kill her! Do it now! Gut her remains and sink the evidence, then fly home in a week

Before the Lady left She stated there was one last message which the Lord wished to convey only to Jacinta and me. She told us She was the Mother of God and asked us to make public this message to the entire world at the appropriate time. In so doing we will find strong resistance. Listen well and pay attention was Her command. Men have to correct

couple dozen men under Rich Davis's command, the SEAL unit charged with capturing, not killing, Al-Wazu, were an exceptionally well-oiled $85 million machine.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

God is in no ways a safety net for the blind. He's not someone to be commanded to perform magic tricks, or forced into Self-revelation—not even by His own Son.

Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it's time for a mutiny.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.