Command Quotes

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The most sensible skill that I can give to somebody born in 2003 is a perfect command of Mandarin. — Jim Rogers
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. — Paul Ricoeur
Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or… — Gianni Vattimo
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a… — Juvenal
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of… — Sonja Henie
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should… — Philip Yancey
Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on… — David Platt
Somewhere along the way we have subtly and tragically taken the costly command of Christ to go, baptize, and teach all nations and mutated it… — David Platt
I think managing shortened my playing career, but I was a better manager when I was playing, when I could lead like a platoon sergeant… — Frankie Frisch
A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her… — Scott Lynch
It takes a hundred times more skill to make love than to command an army. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them… — Charlotte Mason
For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been… — Peter Duesberg
Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the pointâ€“and couch… — Cyrus the Great
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. — Georgia Harkness
The greatest tool at our command is the very thing that is photography. Light. Light is our paintbrush and it is a most willing tool… — Laura Gilpin
POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever… — Rick Bayan
I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ's heralds to publish this everywhere and to persÂue all people of whatever rank, foot-soldiers and knights,… — Pope Urban II
If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not… — Pope Boniface VIII
Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no… — Joseph Conrad

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