"He was very commanding, and you had to……" — Glenn Ford

More 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… — Daniel Boone
• There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance… — 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… — D. H. Lawrence
• Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their… — Blaise Pascal
• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that… — Lysander Spooner
• [When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can… — John Herschel
• The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master… — John A. Lejeune
• Too many believe that love is a condition, a feeling that involves 100 percent of the heart, something that happens… — 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

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