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“Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.”

Book:Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters

Source: Ovid's Metamorphoses: In Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables, Written in French by the Abbot Banier, ... Translated Into English. Adorned with Sculptures by B. Picart, and Other Able Masters

“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”

“Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept”

Law Moral Fashion Wind Intellectual Concepts Command Vulnerable

Book:Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law

Source: Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law

“If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance”

Ifs Attention Quality Command Admirable Nuisance Admirable Qualities

Author:Margery Allingham

“Many companies operate from more of a command-and-control environment - they decide what's going to happen at headquarters and have the organization execute. That doesn't work here because it's the community of users who really have control. So we enable, not direct. We think of our customers as people, not wallets. And that has implications for how we run the company. We partner with our customers and let them take the company where they think it's best utilized.”

People Thinking Happens Running Community Company Environment Direct Organization Customers Partners Command Users Implications Wallets Headquarters Command And Control

Author:Meg Whitman

“Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command. They want books as a Turk is thought to want concubines - not to be hastily deflowered, but to be kept at their master's call, and enjoyed more often in thought than in reality.”

People Want May Book Reality Lying Language Masters Lovers Drug Pursuit Stealing Command Enjoyed Range Gentle Schemes Shelves Dope Book Lover Concubines

Author:Robertson Davies

“And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.”

Long Country Given Dark Land Command Titles Native Ark Native Land Country Love Noah's Ark

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.”

Christian Christian Inspirational Command

Author:Thomas F. Wilson

“I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Opportunity Space Bases Command Day To Day Honored

Author:Eileen Collins

“A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination.”

Inspirational Mind Reason Shows Fear Imagination Thousand Command Fearful Halloween Suggestions Glances Moody

Book:Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

Source: Sir Walter Scott: Collected Letters, Memoirs and Articles: Complete Autobiographical Writings, Journal & Notes, Accompanied with Extended Biographies and Reminiscences of the Author of Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering

“Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.”

People Leadership Military Command Associates Command And Control

Book:Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.”

Heart Eye Able Understanding Answers Party Essentials Intellectual Evidence Argument Ears Finals Debate Enormous Command Ease Subtle Rejects

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.”

Character Law Order Natural Slavery Scary Command Preservation Disturbance Natural Order

Author:Saint Augustine

“We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.”

Source: The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship

“We have seen a growing mismatch between the command of media communication shown by the most talented politicians, and the halting, uneven progress which they can deliver through the machinery of government.”

Government Political Politics Growing Progress Media Communication Politician Command Machinery Mismatch

Book:It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government

Source: It's Democracy, Stupid: An Agenda for Self-government

“Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.”

Men Inspirational Motivational Issues Healthy Equal Speech Prosperity Possession Tongue Command Ruins Well Being

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“Diversity in counsel, unity in command.”

Diversity Army Unity Command

Author:Cyrus the Great

“For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.”

Ifs World God Law Science Religion Religious Roles Clear Objects Miracle Command Passive Laws Of Nature Obedient

Author:Brian Ellis

“It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics.”

Littles Difficult Attention Command

Book:The Quickening Maze

Source: The Quickening Maze

“If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.”

Source: The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

“When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!”

Jesus Names Feet Command Satan Necks Print Nails Friday Good Friday

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate.”

Country States Belief Church Atheism Worship Command Presidential Church And State Separation Of Church And State Mandates Separation Between Church And State Pluralism Pluralism Is

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.”

Reality Influence Figures Command Just One Significance Excess Council Councillors

Author:Steve Blake

“The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal government, else, they are independent and not under the command of the president or the government. The states would control the militia, only when called out into the service of the state, and then the governor would be commander in chief where enumerated in the respective state constitution.”

States Government Would Be President Constitution Independent Command Chiefs Governors Federal Government Commanders Militia Commander In Chief

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.”

Men Facts Body Order Social Secret Existence Class Groups Historical Command Supposed To Be Propaganda Denied Establishment Signals Ruling Small Groups Social Order Electorate Command Not

Author:Arthur Miller

“In order to assure an adequate national defense, it is necessary - and sufficient - to be in a position in case of war to conquer the command of the air.”

War Order Cases Air Military Position Defense Command Conquer Sufficient Aviation Adequate Defence Air Force Air Power National Defense Airpower Warlords

Book:Command Of The Air

Source: Command Of The Air

“If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?”

Ifs Individual Born Individuality Obligation Command

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say”

Ifs Knows Want Writing Long Able Language What You Want Technique Command Craftsman

Author:Jeffery Deaver

“Perhaps the greatest reason for missionary work is to give the world it's chance to hear and accept the gospel. The scriptures are replete with commands and promises and calls and rewards for teach the gospel. I use the word command deliberately for it seems to be an insistent directive from which we, singly and collectively, cannot escape...I wonder if we are doing all we can. Are we complacent in our approach to teaching all the world? We have been proselyting now 144 years. Are we prepared to lengthen our stride? To enlarge our vision?”

“One of the most important and rewarding ways in which we can serve our fellowmen is by living and sharing the principles of the gospel. We need to help those whom we seek to serve to know for themselves that God not only loves them but he is ever mindful of them and their needs. To teach our neighbors of the divinity of the gospel is a command reiterated by the Lord: 'It becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor' (D&C 88:81).”

Knows Men Way Needs Important Helping Lord Principles Teach Neighbor Every Man Command Divinity Only Love

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.”

Men World Passion Masters Catholic Command Hammers Anvils

Author:Saint Dominic

“Every moment comes to us pregnant with a command from God, only to pass on and plunge into eternity, there to remain forever what we have made of it.”

Made Moments Forever Eternity Saint Command Pregnant Plunge

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent”

Way Wells Literature Grows Challenges Projects Command Range Take A Chance Aggravation Time Well Spent

Author:Donna Tartt

“Fools follow rules when the set commands ya...”

Fool Command

Author:Zack de la Rocha

“If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.”

Ifs Would Be Turns Leadership Mines Faults Command Seagull

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.”

Ideas Hard Character Stories Down And Accidents Command Evolve

Author:John Kricfalusi

“We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person...the Lord alone has the capacity to judge...And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.”

Should Persons Seems Remember Lord Judging Judgment Capacity Forgiving Finals Command Refrain

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.”

People Thinking World Believe I Believe Attention Moral Ethics Capacity Communicate Command Frontiers

Author:Gordon Brown

“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.”

World Feelings Evil This World Circumstances Degrees Victim Painful Command Passages

Book:The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance

Source: The Mysteries of Udolpho: Horror and Romance

“What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.”

May Done Grace And Love Praise Command Holiness

Book:An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations

Source: An exposition of all the books of the Old and New Testaments: ...: Wherein each chapter is summed up in its contents: the sacred text inserted at large in distinct paragraphs ... largely illustrated with practical remarks and observations

“Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!”

Writing Wind Army Blow Command

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“Do not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.”