Quotes About Command

The leader must be an actor.

I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

Tell me," he demanded. "Tell me when. I'm going to come with you." . . . "Tell me," he ordered. "I'm . . . yes!" she said. "Yes!" . . . "Can you really do that/" she asked. "Come on command?" --Mike Muldoon, Navy SEAL, to Joan DaCosta

Y'all can think of me as the voice of God. I say it, you obey it, or there'll be hell to pay.

I'm going to carry you now," he told her, "so we can move even faster. I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says. 'Done,' I say. 'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation. 'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone. 'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.' (Katniss and Boggs)

Gregor bluntly. "As our guest, I hope," replied Vikus. "Although Queen Luxa has no doubt ordered

I do not take orders from you, Overlander. Let us be clear on this from the start.

he says, "You know, you better put Buttercup on your list of demands, too. I don't think the concept of useless pets is well known here." "Oh, they'll find him a job. Tattoo it on his paw every morning," I say. But I make a mental note to include him for Prim's sake. By the time we get to Command, Coin, Plutarch, and all their people have already assembled.

The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!

By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.

Jesus' command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.

Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

things are starting to be brought under control today;

seize the public by the button

When an enlisted man sees his commanding officer lose his head entirely…," Private Taylor wrote, "it would…demoralize anyone taught to breathe, almost, at the word of command.

Thou shalt kill.

Damisch Control

Chain of command knows no age restrictions, he once told Connor. You could be six, but if you were my superior, I'd still do as I was told.

I don't like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)