Quotes About Command

Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.

In the end, she realized, he had successfully invited them all to die simply by promising to do it with them. It was all they would ask of any commander.

Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.

Adrian also took charge of his own life, he took command of it, he took it in his hands—and then out of them. How few of us—we that remain—can say that we have done the same? We muddle along, we let life happen to us, we gradually build up a store of memories. There is the question of accumulation, but not in the sense that Adrian meant, just the simple adding up and adding on of life. And as the poet pointed out, there is a difference between addition and increase.

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

She spoke like a tsar issuing a ukase, and it was clear she would brook no further argument.

I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop. I'll give you a promise, he said gruffly. And then you will cease your worrying. You will have confidence in my ability to protect you, he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. I'm so happy to see you, she cried out. Be happy sitting down, Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.

They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.

The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.

The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.

The king is the man who can.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

Executive: a man who makes quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

I can make men follow me to hell.

The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light.