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The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
— Orville Dewey
The Dutchman sails as its captain commands!
— Davy Jones
An obedient wife commands her husband.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won't stand the same from another man?
— Magda Alexander
He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
— Roger Mudd
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
To Choose To Disobey God's Command Is To Be Doomed To Live A Life Independently God
— Sunday Adelaja
Fools follow rules when the set commands you.
— Zack De La Rocha
Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.
— Hillary Clinton
What you can't enforce, do not command.
— Sophocles
Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess ... responsiveness.
— Cherise Sinclair
At the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Hanseatics were believed to have had at their command 40,000 vessels and 300,000 men.
— Mark Kurlansky
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
— Charles Caleb Colton
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.
— Henry Adams
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
— George Washington
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
— Ernest Holmes
No. Listen. Take the wax from thy hairy ears. Listen well. I command.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I like to see an angry Englishman," said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.
— Agatha Christie
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
— Jean Edward Smith
I no longer consider, is this chap a congenial companion? Rather, the question is, would I feel easy if he were in command of the platoon on my right?
— James Carl Nelson
Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobs
— Kirsten Beyer
You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
— Rudolf Hess
You shall have your sunset. I shall command it. But I shall wait, according to my science of government, until conditions are favorable.
— Antoine De Saint-Exupery
The man had one of those dark, deep voices, the kind that made men listen and women shed their clothing.
— Alexandra Martin
As my great friend Aristotle said, 'If you cannot command, you must learn to listen.' I'm not the hierarchy here. I am a worker bee.
— Shaquille O'Neal
As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast.
— Kevin Allen
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
— Edward Gibbon
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
Toys? When a man - a dom - said toys, he didn't mean stuffed animals or baseballs.
— Cherise Sinclair
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.
— James Hudson Taylor
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
— Saint Augustine
Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.
— Oren Arnold
No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words.
— Philip Pullman
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
— Francis Bacon
When you're in command, command.
— Chester W. Nimitz
The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
— Hippocrates
All is one in Darkseid. The mighty body is my church. When I command your surrender, I speak with three billion voices ...
— Grant Morrison
A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
— Dave Morris
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
— David McCullough
He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.
— Jeff Shaara
The command of custome is great.
— George Herbert
At this command, to Rose's great dismay, six more hands were offered, and it was evident that she was expected to shake them all.
— Louisa May Alcott
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
We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
— Kahlil Gibran
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
— Idries Shah
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
— Joseph Addison
To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.
— George Henry Lewes
You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.
— Janny Wurts
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Popular men who laugh at your jokes pose a threat which blatant villains can never command.
— Lindsey Davis
All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
— Lionel Trilling
The command to be free is a double bind
— Kim Stanley Robinson
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
— John Buford
God does not DEMANDWhat He does not COMMAND
One these last DAYS
Do what God SAYS ... — Israelmore Ayivor
Beauty and grace command the world.
— Park Benjamin
Dammit, why isn't there a book with the answers in it?
— Cherise Sinclair
Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.
— Ulysses S. Grant
It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.
— Marion G. Romney
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
— Hal Duncan
A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.
— Lord Chesterfield
If you are with me long, I will begin to spell Master with two M's.
— Cherise Sinclair
Obedience alone gives the right to command.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.
— Ram Dass
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
— Susan B. Anthony
Away: that was the only command my body could respond to. Away Away Away.
— Heather Demetrios
