Command famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
-- Adolf Galland -
In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna -
I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.
-- Anchee Min -
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
-- Andre Malraux -
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.
-- Aristotle -
The law commands us to do what we would do naturally if we only had love. The Way consists of finding that love, which then becomes the law.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.
-- Avis Bohlen -
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.
-- Barry Commoner -
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
-- Berthold Auerbach -
Take a stand and command to demand what's grand.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.
-- Buffalo Bill -
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
-- Charles Churchill -
Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.
-- Christopher Vokes -
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
-- Corrie Ten Boom -
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
-- Dalai Lama -
Disciple making is not a call for others to come to us to hear the gospel but a command for us to go to others to share the gospel.
-- David Platt -
Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.
-- David Platt -
Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.
-- Don Pendleton -
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths
-- Eric S. Nylund -
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
-- Ferdinand Foch -
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
-- Francis Bacon -
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
-- George Eliot -
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
-- George Eliot -
Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course.
-- George Meredith -
Always do everything you ask of those you command.
-- George S. Patton -
Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.
-- Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch -
Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
-- Hasan of Basra -
No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.
-- Heber J. Grant -
When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
-- Henrietta Mears -
God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
-- Henry Blackaby -
God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.
-- Henry Blackaby -
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
-- Henry Fuseli -
Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.
-- Hermann Ebbinghaus -
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond...
-- Jim Elliot -
Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands.
-- Jim George -
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
-- John Abizaid -
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
-- John Locke -
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
-- John Vianney -
Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes, Miss Palma. PRIVATE Steven? Again with the capital letters?
-- Jordan Sonnenblick -
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
We know to much to command ourselves very far.
-- Julian Jaynes -
He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past.
-- Kane -
Jesus commands us to go - but we go the other way.
-- Keith Green -
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.
-- Marion G. Romney -
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
-- Mark Shields -
Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.
-- Martin Luther -
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.
-- Michael Cunningham -
Kaylin is not known for her punctuality. She is known, in fact, for her lack--even by those outside of the Hawklord's command.
-- Michelle Sagara -
There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
-- Mike Dirnt -
Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.
-- Mike Jackson -
God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
-- Myles Munroe -
It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
-- Ned Beatty -
The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
-- Orville Dewey -
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
-- Philip Sidney -
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
-- Pittacus of Mytilene -
When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
-- Ram Dass -
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr -
A conductor should guide rather than command.
-- Riccardo Muti -
Why wait for a call when you have a command?
-- Robert Hughes -
Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
-- Saint Augustine -
Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.
-- Sappho -
Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.
-- Sheryl Crow -
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
-- Simone Weil -
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
-- Solon -
He who commands the sea has command of everything.
-- Themistocles -
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
-- Thomas F. Wilson -
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one
-- Wally Schirra -
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
-- Walter Russell -
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
-- Wang Jianlin -
Those who can command themselves command others.
-- William Hazlitt -
Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
-- Zack de la Rocha -
What can the will do when the heart commands?
-- Louis L'Amour -
Much of command is the ability to take command.
-- Louis L'Amour -
Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
-- Meghan O'Rourke -
Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.
-- Tairrie B -
A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.
-- Robert W. Floyd
