"Learn to obey before you command."

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Solon

#Military Quotes #Command Quotes

“Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.”

Source : "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.
“The view of Earth is spectacular.”
“But he thought all the strange words were beautiful, and he had never had a book of his own before.”
“Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.”
“Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.”
“Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.45, Routledge
“Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.”
“It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the stars, in some realm of light imperceptible to the human eye. It is a feat of the mind to guess another's heart.”

Source : Andrew Sean Greer (2007). “The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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