Command Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image “She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Command Desire Power
Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do. — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no woman in the world who does not abuse the power she has been able to acquire. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos Copy Share Image
“She was no mere weapon as she was trained to be, but a woman in full command of her power, unbowed and unbroken, and… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself. — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
“Everyone recognized she was without malice and therefore she provoked none.” — John Christopher Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
