Quotes with command

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  • Bainbridge Colby That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Pittacus That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Armstrong Williams The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Edward Gibbon 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
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • George Herbert There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • William Hazlitt Those who can command themselves command others.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • André Malraux To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • William Shakespeare We were not born to sue, but to command.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruno Mars What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Sophocles What you cannot enforce, do not command.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Herman Melville When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf When placed in command - take charge.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • Norman Schwarzkopf When placed in command, take charge.
    Norman Schwarzkopf
    American general (1934 - 2012)
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  • George Washington Carver When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • John Florio Who has not served cannot command.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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