#comma

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #comma




Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.


Benjamin Disraeli


#chieftain #command #fashion #find #give

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.


Benjamin Tucker


#commanded #distinction #hate #indiscriminately #love

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.


Ginny B. Waite


#commandments #constitution #display #doing #flawed

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.


E. B. White


#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.


Theodore White


#away #being #bodies #break #cease

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut.


Billy Wilder


#commandments #cut #final #final cut #first

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


#command #considered #could #estimate #first

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.


Ellen Glasgow


#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.


Alfred M. Gray


#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

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


#any #command #discord #divisions #heart