Quotes About Command

He was a father in those happy and balmy days for fathers, when they and their wishes were immediately obeyed, when they were the ostensible focal point of the family's existence and their commands were never ignored.

Juchniewicz silenced Cogan with a communiqué of unusual clarity: "Higher authority wants a mean fucker in the job.

You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.

Instruments of coercion, once created, have a tendency to find their own natural masters.

The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.

Jesu, Helen, turn the horses!

Sean crossed his arms on his chest. "I had several Medamoths under my command on Nexus. They don't make peace. They kill, they hunt, and they write bad poetry.

Vincent rolled his eyes. "I can't believe I have to say this. You there, dashing male secretary! Drop the frying pan.

Ethical laws cannot be thought of as emanating originally merely from the will of this superior being as statutes, which, had he not first commanded them, would perhaps not be binding, for then they would not be ethical laws and the duty proper to them would not be the free duty of virtue but the coercive duty of law.

A nation is not (like the ground on which it is located) a possession. It is a society of men whom no one other than the nation itself can command or dispose of.

T]he sublimity and intrinsic dignity of the command in duty are so much the more evident, the less the subjective impulses favor it and the more they oppose it, without being able in the slightest degree to weaken the obligation of the law or to diminish its validity.

R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man...

And AC said, LET THERE BE LIGHT! And there was light --

Y AC dijo: ¡HÁGASE LA LUZ! Y la luz se hizo...

In conflict zones in particular, we need personnel who wear the badge of the United States, are a part of our official military command, and are always held accountable for their actions.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Soldiers, strike the foe in the face!

When Britain first at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And Guardian angels sung this strain; "Rule Britannia! rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves."

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

He's the president. I'm the general. Unless I want to get impeached, I got to do what he says.

Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.