Command Quotes - Page 6

Blessing come to you when you are obedient to God’s commands.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

Mack Bolan was simply a man who could command himself.

Ask the sheep for their beliefs... Do you kill on God's command?

Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.

In answer to the question, "Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten?," someone thoughtfully replied, "No, they should be reread."

Thou shalt not whine' should be the eleventh commandment.

I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]

That's why I'm going to kill you and see how Haruhi Suzumiya reacts.

We could still have continued the arms race, but the arms race was pointless, and it was another reason we decided to start perestroika. It was senseless to continue to accumulate weapons. We had enough weapons to destroy life on Earth 1,000 times, and therefore it was very clear to us that the arms race could spiral out of control. A conflict could have started, as both the Americans and the Soviets realized, not out of a wrong political decision but because of a failure in the command-and-control systems.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

When God commands, do it!

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature.