#commanding

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#fragile #i #like #little #look

I like to look strong and commanding. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#i #like #look #strong

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#child #commanding #give #like #man

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. ↗

— James Stockdale

#fighter #i #officer #squadron

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#doing #had #him #how #i

He killed, his sword shearing, shield and horse a ram, pushing in, and further in, opening a space by force alone for the momentum of the men behind him. Beside him a man fell to a spear in the throat. To his left, an equine scream as Rochert's horse went down. In front of him, methodically, men fell, and fell, and fell. He split his attention. He swept a sword cut aside with his shield, killed a helmed soldier, and all the while flung out his mind, waiting for the moment when Touar's lines split open. The most difficult part of commanding from the front was this--staying alive in the moment, while tracking in his mind, critically, the whole fight. Yet it was exhilarating, like fighting with two bodies, at two scales. ↗

— S.U. Pacat

#commanding #damen #war #men

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. ↗

— Will Durant

#commanding-nature #eternal-recurrence #history #history-repeating-itself #science

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#art #attention #commanding #conversation #easily