Command Quotes - Page 39

• I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

  Bill Viola

  Thinking, Artist, Oil

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• 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.

  Black Francis

  Reality, Voice, Parent

  "Black Francis can't tell Rock Chickens from EGGS" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. July 30, 2009.

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• At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Government, Law

  "Burdeau v. McDowell, 256 U.S. 465, 477". Dissenting opinion, 1921.

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• The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

  William Ralph Inge

  Two, Religion, Population

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• Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Party, Writing

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• The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Writing, Thinking

  "Floyd Abrams: Country Desperately Needs to Be Thinking About Free Speech". campus.asu.edu. September 12, 2017.

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• To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

  John Vianney

  Religious, Queens, Heaven

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• Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, America, Psychology

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• For me, my faith is a really big part of my life, and it is important for me to walk it out every day, .. Part of our faith as Christians is the command that we let people see who we are as Christians. I'm doing my part to show who I am and that I'm not ashamed of it.

  Ashley Young

  Christian, Who I Am, People

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• We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now are not even capable of imagining.

  Frederick Tilney

  Inspirational, Power, Use

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• Suicide terrorist groups are [not] religious cults isolated from the rest of their society, ... Rather, suicide terrorist organizations often command broad social support within the national communities from which they recruit, because they are seen as pursuing legitimate nationalist goals, especially liberation from foreign occupation.

  Robert Pape

  Suicide, Religious, Organization

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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Important

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• Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.

  Brigham Young

  Heart, Evil, Giving

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.255

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• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Leaving, Enemy

  Statement at Paris, January 23, 1814.

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• Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Unity, Might

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• It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

  Saint Basil

  Saint, Would Be, Authority

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• Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Evil, Worry, Anxiety

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• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

  Richard Steele

  Love, Education, Behaviour

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• Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Believe, Catholic, Grace

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• I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Civil War, Purpose

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• I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

  War, Fighting, Coffins

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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  Harold B. Lee

  Birth Control, Earth, Sin

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• A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Needs, Consideration

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn

  Walt Disney

  Daughter, Football, Games

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