Command Quotations

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.

When you have an injury in your forearm, it affects the command of your pitches. I would yank pitches down away, or they were staying up. I'd go to accelerate, but everything would come forward except the ball. The ball was staying behind. When you have an inconsistent release point like that, it's impossible to throw a changeup.

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.

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.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

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

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.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

People who have never done theatre before, and have only worked in front of a camera, would find it very difficult, I think, to know how to command a stage and work with the logistics of being on stage. They're very different. The theatre is quite tricky, actually.

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

Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

Relying exclusively on air power has limits: planes are effective against fixed strategic targets, like petroleum storage, bridges, and command bunkers; but even then, air power rarely succeeds by itself in destroying a regime's ability to command and control its forces.

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

We all have ambitions, but only the few achieve. A man thinks of a good thing and says: 'Now if I only had the money I'd put that through.' The word 'if' was a dent in his courage. With character fully established, his plan well thought out, he had only to go to those in command of capital and it would have been forthcoming.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.

I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

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.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

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

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.

Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought.

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century).

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one

Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

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

In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.

The AEC had at its command an army of highly skilled scientists.

Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in process of time, to disorder, anarchy, and revolution if not counteracted by some appropriate and strong constitutional provision. Such is not the case in the slaveholding States.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

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.

Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes.

On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

Being first lady is not just about being the wife but really taking command and having true vision.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

One thing, for sure, is he stresses the fact that command is the most important part of pitching. He's not up there throwing hard. He's mixing up pitches and keeping guys off balance. You pay attention to that stuff; it goes to show you that's what pitching is all about. It's not about throwing 100 mph.

One of the saddest things a creator has to deal with in this industry is when a product is now impossible to play. Not because it's a bad game, but because the platform doesn't exist anymore. We've been prolific trying to bring back landmark products, and our approach in the past has been to update the graphics. But I think this time we did the right thing. Command & Conquer is an event, it's one of the most successful franchises ever done, and it would be very inappropriate to modify it.

On the contrary, he may decide that it hurts him in terms of his commitments with the North Americans, with Colombian economic groups, with the military high command and with all the other enemies of the (peace) process.

On the positive side, we learned how important mobility and precision strike and global situation awareness and integrated command and control were. On the negative side, I think we also understand that fratricide or friendly fire continues to be an issue.

Nearly 100 airmen who were scheduled to deploy from Keesler AFB (to the Central Command area of responsibility) will not deploy now

I was pleased with his mound presence. I think he felt in command the whole time. The box score was not indicative of that, but he didn't give up a run.

I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in command in Rome

I wouldn't say we're concerned, but ... his command was off and sometimes that's a sign of weariness, ... He's in uncharted waters.

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

Life is all about stewardship. It all belongs to God - he just loans it to us for a short period of time. The first command God gave to man was to take care of the Earth, which includes managing and protecting the environment.

On a day to day basis, the Black Watch will of course have to coordinate their activity within the U.S. chain of command in the locality, but any changes in the mission or the tasking would have to be referred back to Gen. Rollo,

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

One difference that is crucial is that in those days, communications didn't exist, with no phones in homes or pockets. They didn't have TV. And yet command and control worked.

Morales is an untried political leader. He's certainly someone who can command the street. Now, can he make the transition from an agitator to an executive?

no other individual has had more command over surf media in the U.S. than Larry Moore.

No one up the chain of command has ever been held accountable for what is in these horrifying images, and no true independent commission or special prosecutor has ever been allowed to investigate.

My fastball command was pretty poor, but the cutter was pretty good. The first inning had good points and bad points. Mostly, the execution wasn't there at all. For me, it's trying to get mechanics down to be consistent, and today I wasn't consistent.

Pepe was on top of his game. His breaking ball had a lot of bite, and he had good command of the strike zone.

Rick certainly seems in command right now. Erik seems to be pressing a bit out there. When you grade the film and look at all the cut-ups and all the breakdowns of all the drills, the two guys are equal.

Right now he has real good command of his form and technique. He came out of basketball very strong, so we're hoping to build on that.

My favorite song is "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" because it's become my signature song. I sang it for six American presidents and five command performances... it's made me a world citizen.

My location wasn't as good in the first inning, my command wasn't quite there, but after that I settled down and I was locating my pitches better and that was the biggest difference.

My location wasn't tremendous, but it was pretty good, ... I had pretty good command of my breaking ball, which was a surprise. But I'm definitely happy with the way my body feels.

My location wasn't tremendous, but it was pretty good. I had pretty good command of my breaking ball, which is a surprise. I'm definitely happy with the way my body feels after that session.

There are two command centers set up down there, ... Maybe three weeks down the road we may go in to relieve those there now.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Miles pitched well enough to keep us close. He hung in there and battled tonight. He didn't have his good command like he's had recently, but he battled long enough for us to eventually get a win.

Megan is really efficient. She has a command for the game. She directs her team. She brings a really great calmness to her teammates and she also has the ability to score. A scoring point guard makes that person even more dangerous.

Mike is a laid-back type of guy. It's not that he demands anything because Mike's just not that kind of guy. But he's cool. Everybody just knows right off to respect him. He doesn't have to command a lot of things.

Matt pitched real well for us with five strikeouts and only one walk. He had command of all his pitches.

She had good control and command of her change-up. She just kept them off-balance.

She pitched great. If you ask me, she pitched a no-hitter. ... She threw amazing. ... She has very good command of her pitches right now and is putting the ball exactly where she wants it.

She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul; yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell. I am powerless. What can I do? I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing.

We had chances. He really struggled with his command and that got his pitch count up pretty fast. But you've got to get that hit that brings in some runs. We just couldn't get it.

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army, ... To make the Iraqi Army stand on its own without American or coalition forces, we need command and control equipment, transport vehicles and training.

Sean's velocity and command were good through the first two innings, and you want to see him keep that up for longer stretches before he takes the next step. It's a process you've got to go through.