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She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent.
— Mimi Wolverton
I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.
— Elle Lothlorien
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
— A.A. Gill
...buzzing with the kind of commanding energy that felled trees and whistled teakettles..
— Shari Goldhagen
The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.
— Gerd Von Rundstedt
But he's so cute when he gets all determined and commanding, isn't he?"...
"It's not cute, it's very manly! — M.R. Merrick
The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons. — Jose Lezama Lima
Many of the presidents have sworn themselves in to similarly foolish titles: Governor of Cow Pastures, Commanding General of Standing Chickens.
— Karen Russell
I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
— Alfred M. Gray
I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
— Zoe Saldana
There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.
— Elizabeth Wein
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have so many, like brothers, commanding one another's fortunes!
— William Shakespeare
A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.
— Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Women are binding and men are commanding.
— Debasish Mridha
There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.
— Robert Henri
This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.
— Herman Melville
You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.
— John Eisenhower
Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
— Pliny The Elder
Casey. You're going to need to stop questioning me," he said in a commanding tone. "That's your first lesson. The next one starts now.
— Lauren Blakely
Conquering the world was a simple thing; commanding one's spirit was the real challenge.
— Darren Shan
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.
— Will Durant
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
— Carl Sandburg
Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.
— Nicholas Sparks
It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.
— Mike Jackson
If you are passionate, compassionate, commanding, and just, everybody will feel the passion and they will follow you passionately.
— Debasish Mridha
she looked at me as if a horse had wandered into the hall, and in commanding it with her eyes, she could get it to return to its stable.
— Alexander Chee
Though the wind was commanding the sand into even ridges, it couldn't control the sea.
— Jennie Nash
Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.
— Fatima Bint Muhammad
There was a string - a string tied to my gut that pulled me toward those hills, commanding me to go, to hear the faerie drums
— Sarah J. Maas
The Commanding Heights
— Frank J. Pietrucha
Alain Prost is in a commanding second position
— Murray Walker
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
— Arnold Palmer
the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy
— Christopher McDougall
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
— Blaise Pascal
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
— Mark Helprin
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[Jesus said] "Love each other as I have loved you. This is what I'm commanding you to do." John 15:12
— Dianne Neal Matthews
Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.
— Israelmore Ayivor
You don't get people to follow you by demanding it with your words. You do it by commanding it with your example.
— Marcus Luttrell
And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
— Barbara Castle
So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.
— Saint Augustine
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
— Benjamin Franklin
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)
— Aleksandr Voinov
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.
— Portia De Rossi
If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.
— Robert F. Almeder
When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.
— Duncan Campbell Scott
If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
