Commands Quotes

• No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Mystery
  • Weapons
  • Affection

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.

  

  Halford Mackinder
  • Rules
  • Controls
  • Commands

• She commands who is blest with indifference.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Indifference
  • Commands
  • Blest

• For through the South the custom still commands The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Gentleman
  • Custom
  • Commands

• Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lays
  • Commands

• We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Life
  • Man
  • Permission

• Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Laws
  • Purposes
  • Commands

• Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Laws
  • Israel
  • Commands

• In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

  

  Euripides
  • Friendship
  • Commands
  • Adverse

• The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Passion
  • Love Is
  • Rise

• 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 uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Silence
  • Rules
  • Eternal Fate

• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Anger

• Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Commands

• The leader should know how to enter into evil when necessity commands.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Evil
  • Leader
  • Necessity

• What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

  

  Joseph Smith, Jr.
  • Society
  • Commands
  • Damnation

• And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Learning
  • Commands
  • Homage

• He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sin
  • Commands
  • Forbids

• But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Love
  • Desire

• Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Computer
  • Commands

• Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Teaching
  • Loyalty
  • Pope

• Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Love
  • Law
  • Motive

• I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Creator
  • Discovering
  • Worker

• First, we should become informed about communism, about socialism, and about Americanism. What better way can one become informed than by first studying the inspired words of the prophets and using that as a foundation; against which to test all other material. This is in keeping with the Prophet Joseph Smith's motto, "When the Lord commands, do it."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Foundation
  • Communism
  • The Lord