The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
A leader is someone you are not disappointed in placing trust in. When that person makes suggestions, you are inclined to trust… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Spirit, who are you?' Andy demanded. Bobby remained silent, his entire body strained, his lips tightly together, his eyes bulging out. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one had ever said anything like that to Evie. Her parents always wanted to advise or instruct or command. They were… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As far as the command centers are concerned in Raqqa and to a lesser degree Mosul, cut those off. Do the same… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction,… — Benedict Groeschel Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone. Therefore, Muslims do… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
“Only by listening attentively to every command issuing from his heart can the warrior hope to gain the advantage over power. There… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
The First Command was to 'Multiply' and the Prophet taught us that Dominion & powr in the great Future would be Comensurate… — Benjamin F. Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter the organization, the goal, or the mission, you've got to do it through people. It's been that way for me… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he… — John Constable Copy Share Image
The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes… — James Allen Copy Share Image
I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the… — Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I will also ask my secretary of defense and joint chiefs to present recommendations for strengthening and augmenting our cyber command. As… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man;… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued;… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image