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There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.
— Winfield Scott
How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
— Patrick O'Brian
They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.
— Maria V. Snyder
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There's not a hell of a lot of difference between bravery and stupidity." - Commander Boaz Aurigae
— Charles Nall
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
— William Westmoreland
Come all you thoughtless young men,a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea. — Patrick O'Brian
Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.
— Iwane Matsui
He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.
— Tom Clancy
Right now Captain Cranky and Commander Hard-Ass weren't tops on his list of people he wanted to be around...
— Katherine McIntyre
I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.
— James Long
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
— Ani DiFranco
For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and, withdrawing them, find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!
— Bartholomew Roberts
It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
— Nathan Hale
To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.
— Sarah Palin
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
— Erwin Rommel
I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.
— John Flanagan
For parents, the days are long but the years are short.
— Travis Thrasher
Just be prepared," she said. "When you do come back to live with me, you are SO GROUNDED for calling me the chicken that crossed the road.
— Jennifer Echols
We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.
— Orson Scott Card
Not all questions are answered, commander, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
— Terry Pratchett
Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
— Thomas Watson
You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Just one more example of why a commander who ruled by fear and made all the decisions himself would always be beaten, sooner or later.
— Orson Scott Card
I want to be a sunshine grandma.
— Kay Robertson
Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.
— Oliver North
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.
— David Ignatius
In a rare flash of humor, she had replied: Woody, a commander can be wrong, but never uncertain.
— Arthur C. Clarke
There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.
— Erwin Rommel
SOYINKA WON THE NOBEL PRIZEACHEBE, LITERARY COMMANDER
P.D. JAMES, WE LOVE HER
AGATHA CHRISTIE, QUEEN OF CRIME — S.A. David
I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
— Fidel Castro
The next president of the United States needs to figure one thing out quickly - how to be commander in chief. And I think I could do that.
— Lindsey Graham
I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]
— Ian Fleming
On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.
— Shelby Foote
A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.
— Omar N. Bradley
Barack Obama's a terrible commander-in-chief. He is gutting our military. It's not an exaggeration.
— Marco Rubio
Lee assess a subordinate commander as all lion; no fox.
— Robert E.Lee
Religion is for those of us with too little imagination....or too much.
— Commander Pants
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
— Wesley Clark
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
— Orson Scott Card
You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
— Marsha Blackburn
Those years were just an anomaly, historically speaking, the Commander said, just a fluke. All we've done is return things to Nature's norm.
— Margaret Atwood
In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.
— Kristin Cashore
You know, the commander-in-chief's first responsibility is look out for those in uniform who fight the wars.
— Lindsey Graham
For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel:
— Matthew Henry
The only real owner of anything is its commander;
— Herman Melville
These are: (1) the Moral Law; (2) Heaven; (3) Earth; (4) the Commander; (5) method and discipline.
— Sun Tzu
My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
— Michele Bachmann
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
Nulle cre ature humaine ne peut commander a' l'amour. No human being can give orders to love.
— Sydney Samuelson
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
— Oliver North
If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
— Bernard Law Montgomery
But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
— Erwin Rommel
Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible
— Neil Connelly
The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear Im a commander guy. — George W. Bush
(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.
— Carl T. Rowan
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
My red skirt is hitched up to my waist, though no higher. Below it the Commander is fucking. What he is fucking is the lower part of my body.
— Margaret Atwood
But I envy the Commander's Wife her knitting. It's good to have small goals that can be easily attained.
— Margaret Atwood
No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.
— John J. Pershing
I am now a commander of the British Empire.
— Kevin Spacey
The unexpected is our normal routine. Commander Riker
— Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team
I don't want some mom, whose son may have recently died, to see the commander in chief playing golf.
— George W. Bush
Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you're at it? (Julian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Let's not worry about when we go down, Commander. Let's just worry about what kind of company we keep when we do.
— Evan Currie
When soldiers lack discipline, the fault lies with their lord commander.
— George R R Martin
I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.
— Mike Oldfield
Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander's thoughts.
— B.V. Larson
You can't flip-flop and be commander-in-chief.
— Newt Gingrich
