Command Quotes

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Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry,… — Jean Baptiste Massillon
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.… — Carl Jung
The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is… — David Petraeus
More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost… — Carol Vorderman
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for… — John Yoo
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and contemplation, we will… — Maximus the Confessor
What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it… — Eugene V. Debs
We will be able to achieve a just and prosperous society only when our schools ensure that everyone commands enough shared background knowledge to be… — Edward Hirsch
Since 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter… — Symeon the New Theologian
In order for us to use the very best judgment possible in spending the taxpayer's money intelligently, we just have to do a certain amount… — Wernher von Braun
When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad.… — Rose Kennedy
We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. If He is, nothing… — Bertrand Russell
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable… — Benjamin Disraeli
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity… — Mark Twain
I know My God commands, whose power no power resists. — Robert Greene
The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists. — Barry Commoner
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What… — Jonathan Sacks
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit… — Dwight Gooden
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers,… — Charles Buck

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