Anne Bronte Quotes
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
Anne Bronte
Quotes to Explore
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Socrates
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
George Eliot
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
George Eliot
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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert Camus
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
Seneca the Younger
