Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Some proofs command assent. Others woo and charm the intellect. They evoke delight and an overpowering desire to say, 'Amen, Amen'. — John William Strutt Copy Share Image
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations,… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries."… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
What finally emerges from the 'clear and present danger' cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
In the end, it's extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more that that, too.… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
In Moscow, dim and green under the summer rain, columns of armour were waiting in the side-roads off the long avenue from… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
