Command Quotes

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

Who has not served cannot command.

I cannot command winds and weather.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing.

United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

When placed in command - take charge.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.