Command Quotes

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When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light… — George Eliot
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it… — Christopher Hitchens
Come mothers and fathers. Throughout the land and don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command. Your old… — Bob Dylan
The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we… — C.S. Lewis
I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose… — Brandi Carlile
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world. — Benjamin Disraeli
He who controls the past commands the future, He who commands the future, conquers the past. — Kane
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you… — Luciano Pavarotti
What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the… — Mohammed Bouyeri
And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying… — Pete Sessions
The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather,… — Jay E. Adams
In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and itâ€™s time for a mutiny. — Jose Arguelles
We will direct every resource at our command - every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence,… — George W. Bush
Reading the very best writersâ€”let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoyâ€”is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the… — Harold Bloom
But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us â€” the minister of defense and the prime minister.… — Ehud Barak
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but… — Aldo Leopold
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail — William Westmoreland
It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them. — Winston Churchill

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