Commanding Quotes

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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. — Daniel Boone
There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant… — Sun Tzu
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression. — Mark Helprin
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. — Blaise Pascal
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though… — John Herschel
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that… — John A. Lejeune
Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens to you. They disassociate love… — Lynn G. Robbins
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A. A. Gill
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror. — Herman Melville
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep… — Noah Porter
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally. — Robert F. Almeder
For those fed up with the lack of mystery at the top of the Premiership, could I refer you to the commanding heights of the… — Peter Chapman
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a… — Arthur Conan Doyle
So whom does God wrong in commanding the destruction of the Canaanites? Not the Canaanite adults, for they were corrupt and deserving of judgment. Not… — William Lane Craig
Become very clear about your intentions and desires, know that you deserve them, and then firmly put your foot down to the universe commanding these… — Doreen Virtue

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