Top Command Quotes
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright
Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.
Mark Shields
The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
Roger Babson
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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Jim Gerlach 
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Mark Goddard 
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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.
John Kricfalusi 
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.
Lynn Abbey
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Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.
John Buchanan Robinson
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Denis Diderot
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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.
Markus Wolf
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Lionel Trilling
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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.
Donna Tartt
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Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Robert Grosseteste
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Edward Gibbon
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Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
Margaret J. Wheatley
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