Command Quotes
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Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.
Bill Vaughan -
The results of our investigation indicated a poor command climate.
J. M. Roberts
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If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Margery Allingham -
Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
Alexandra Ripley -
At the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks [about territories]. What command is given in this case in judo? You probably know better than I do: Yoshi (continue). So we will continue.
Vladimir Putin -
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 -
I was surprised how open and unguarded the military was. I expected more scrutiny, more supervision from command.
Sebastian Junger -
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
Kevin Spacey
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Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein -
Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen.
Ben Aaronovitch -
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
Sophocles -
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 -
Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
Ben Affleck -
"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.
Mark Hart Crowded House
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Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill -
We did a good job of being patient. Wakefield didn't have good command, and we did a good job of being patient and getting good swings. If we get on base, these guys do a job of driving us home.
Brad Wilkerson -
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.
Galileo Galilei -
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle -
Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
John Milton
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
John Locke Nazareth -
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 -
Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare