#commission

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat. ↗

— Allen West

#atlanta #born #city #combat #commission

Lost are many great commissions by such neglect. ↗

— James Wyatt

#great #lost #many #neglect #such

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#god #police #world

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.' ↗

— Bobby Hull

#almost #commissioner #deja #deja vu #enough

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#commissioner #coup #good #i #surprised

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #commission #did #embracing #followed

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. ↗

— Louise Brown

#commission #doing #other #plenty #publishers

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#committing #enough #him #his #humor

I don't do commissions and I like the freedom to create what my heart or mind tells me to. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#create #freedom #heart #i #like

I was tired of illustration. You'd work so hard on a commission and it would go in to a magazine, and you'd turn the page and it was gone. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#go #gone #hard #i #illustration