Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
“It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.” — Henry V. O'Neil Copy Share Image
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
In perseverance, in self command, in forethought, in all virtues which conduce to success in life, the Scots have never been surpassed. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Steven, I know I phrased that as a question, but it was really a command. Yes, but mine is…ummm…private. Private, Steven? Yes,… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment,… — Eric Shinseki Copy Share Image
To certain temperaments, especially when previously agitated by any deep feeling, there is perhaps nothing more exasperating, andwhich sooner explodes all self-command,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whoever commands the sea, commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way you can… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how… — David Lilienthal Copy Share Image
It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life. — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color. — Alexander Eliot Copy Share Image
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands. — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It is not safe to despise what Love commands. He reigns supreme, and rules the mighty gods. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
