#command

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. ↗

— Mary Antin

#commands #czar #die #except #left

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. ↗

— Joan of Arc

#commanded #daughter #even #fathers #god

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ↗

— Aristotle

#commanded #fear #gained #i #i do

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#chosen #circumstance #command #first #flight

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#american children #believe #children #commandments #crime

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

— Ned Beatty

#command #impresses #me #person #small

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#command #drawing #english #english language #fine

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. ↗

— Frank Black

#because #been #beyond #command #defined

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

— Buffalo Bill

#buffaloes #command #killed #major #miles

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#first #great #scare #them #you