Command Quotes

• The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor.

  

  Aristotle
  • Style
  • Thing
  • Greatest

• Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Obedience
  • Command

• He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Will
  • Flight
  • Command

• If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

  

  Socrates
  • Little
  • Command
  • Enforce

• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics
  • Command

• Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Money
  • Future
  • Storing

• When it comes to God's commands, the issue is not clarity; it's commitment.

  

  Woodrow M. Kroll
  • Commitment
  • Command
  • Clarity

• Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Time
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • People
  • Like
  • Fly

• Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.

  

  Joyce Appleby
  • Capitalism
  • Command
  • Imperatives

• He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Command
  • Obey
  • Lacking

• Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.

  

  Tairrie B
  • Truth
  • Respect
  • Command

• Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

  

  Sappho
  • Command
  • Immortal
  • Breaths

• He who obeys the command 'Rejoice in the Lord' has a Hallelujah in his soul every minute of the day and night.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • Soul
  • Command
  • Obey

• Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Real
  • Social
  • Terror

• Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Different
  • Control
  • Radio

• The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.

  

  Ryan North
  • Command
  • Doubts
  • Timeless

• If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

  

  William Halsey
  • War
  • Air
  • Modern

• When people are absurdly tall, they command everyone's attention when they walk into a room. Nobody's ever dismissive of somebody for being too tall.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • People
  • Attention
  • Rooms

• Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Heroism
  • Stance
  • Senseless

• Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice ...

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Think
  • Rule

• 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
  • Fault
  • Command
  • General

• We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

  

  Joshua A. Norton
  • Catholic
  • Churches
  • Emperor

• I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Christian
  • Benevolent

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