Quotes About Command

I wish you to place your division across this road, and I wish you to get there

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.

Anything that can be controlled is Action not emotion!

you come with the imprimatur of power." "Imprimatur, huh?" "Seal of approval. In case you have to throw your weight around.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

greater authority.

Whereas the British command not only allowed but facilitated prostitution, the American command, operating on the belief that citizen-soldiers ought to remain chaste, would not permit it.

Even within the rigid structure of the military, common soldiers exercised more power than usual. They elected their own noncommissioned officers. Often, they refused to obey orders; occasionally, they mutinied. They deserted almost at will. More so than in most wars, they challenged or ignored traditional lines of command: try as he might, George Washington was never able to force his men to kick women camp followers out of the wagons.

I'd like to see myself as captain, but it's a long-term goal.

When you are captain, how to project yourself.

Cats rule the world.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up.

The situation in Iraq was dire at the end of 2006, when President George W. Bush decided to implement the surge and selected me to command it. Indeed, when I returned to Baghdad in early February 2007, I found the conditions there to be even worse than I had expected.

When I was in the Western Command from 1964 to 1967, I think 100 strikes must have happened. They just have given it a new name 'surgical strikes.' We used to call it cross border raid.

Go on," he said, in a voice the size of a marble.

Kroldech isn't fit to command fleas attacking a dog.

Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and where everything that has happened is stored up to be remembered and relived, the place where the world is folded up into boxes of paper. Every book is a door that opens onto another world . . . and a library is a Milky Way of worlds. . . . all imaginative, engrossing books are landscapes into which readers vanish.