Command Quotes

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Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command,… — Frances Power Cobbe
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to… — Miroslav Volf
Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of… — Criss Jami
My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command.… — David Pogue
Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't… — Harry S. Truman
Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be. — James Anthony Froude
Do you not think that sometimes when matters are at the worst with us, when we appear to have done all which we ourselves can… — James Anthony Froude
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black… — Arthur Ashe
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy… — John Dryden
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one to one was… — John Dryden
Life is bendable to our will more than we know. In fact, that's the deal. If we don't know that life bends to our will,… — Neale Donald Walsch
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his… — Bill Vaughan
What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could… — Emma Goldman
I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown,… — John Quincy Adams
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. — Thomas Fuller
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. — Mahatma Gandhi
If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice. — Nikki Giovanni
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow

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