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Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.
Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.
You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her.
Realize now the power that your words command if you simply choose them wisely.
Own the stage, command the stage, and don't be afraid to be the best you can be.
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.
Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.
Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.
Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
No blood has been shed under my command this far; and I am determined none shall be!
A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.
If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.
Nobody's more mindful of the sacrifices of our troops than those of us that command them.
Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.
Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.
Love consents to all and commands only those who consent. Love is abdication. God is abdication.
Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.