Commands Quotes

302 quotes by 249 authors

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish,… — Hugo Black
To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern. — John Vianney
A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that… — Mark Twain
Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide. — John Updike
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. — Charles Churchill
Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. — Pierre Corneille
The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants… — Jose Marti
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry. — Saint Francis de Sales
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life. — Pythagoras
If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it… — Tony Robbins
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
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled… — John F. Kennedy
Do what Jesus says,... what he commands through his ministers who are in the Church [see 1 Cor 6:4]. Be subject to his vicars, your… — Bernard of Clairvaux
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind… — Marcus Aurelius
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. — Edwin Louis Cole
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because… — Alan Dershowitz

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