#quarters

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It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.


John H. Morgan


#arrest #command #commanding #department #duty

What if the invasion forces will not leave our lands? What if the U.S. forces and others stay in our beloved lands? What if their companies and embassy headquarters will continue to exist with the American flags hoisted on them? Will you be silent? Will you overlook this?


Muqtada al Sadr


#beloved #companies #continue #embassy #exist

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.


George Bernard Shaw


#head #leave #moment #opinions #other

To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!


Anne Seward


#criticism #derision #entering #exposed #female

My father,' I replied, 'I am fond of action. I like to succour the afflicted, and make people happy. Command that there be built for me a tower, from whose top I can see the whole earth, and thus discover the places where my help would be of most avai1.' 'To do good, without ceasing, to mankind, a race at once flighty and ungrateful, is a more painful task than you imagine,' said Asfendarmod. ------ After saying these words, my father motioned to us to retire; and immediately I found myself in a tower, built on the summit of Mount Caf - a tower whose outer walls were lined with numberless mirrors that reflected, though hazily and as in a kind of dream, a thousand varied scenes then being enacted on the earth. Asfendarmod's power had indeed annihilated space, and brought me not only within sight of all the beings thus reflected in the mirrors, but also within sound of their voices and of the very words they uttered. (“The Story of The Peri Homaiouna”)


William Beckford


#hero #jinn #peri #spirit #super-hero

I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.


David Zucker


#any #attract #audience #aware #been

I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.


Richard Thompson


#i #instrument #probably #songs #three-quarters

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.


Simone Weil


#fiction #life #make #make up #more

We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow.


Klement Gottwald


#headquarters #moscow #our #party #proletariat

Also see how many quarters of corn you will spend in a week in dispensable bread, how much in alms.


Robert Grosseteste


#also #bread #corn #dispensable #how