Command Quotes

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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time… — Donna Tartt
Fools follow rules when the set commands you. — Zack de la Rocha
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident… — John Kricfalusi
We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of… — Dallin H. Oaks
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of… — Gordon Brown
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear,… — Ann Radcliffe
What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by… — Matthew Henry
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! — Hilaire Belloc
Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the… — Robert Greene
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command. — Reinhold Niebuhr
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! — William Butler Yeats
As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul's command to love our wives "as Christ loved the church," is that we… — Scott Means
What counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth...The Soviet model… — Paul Samuelson
The perspective of eternity is not a perspective from a certain place beyond the world, nor the point of view of a transcendent being; rather… — John Rawls
No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey. — Heber J. Grant
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American. — Benjamin Rush
To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition… — Michael Parenti
A tiny portion of the population controls the lions share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing,… — Michael Parenti

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