A Quote by Iris Murdoch

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

Iris Murdoch

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Iris Murdoch
Irish - Novelist
July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

It has to come out of the chain of command, because the chain of command has really become impotent. The chain of command is vested in protecting itself, and so often, the perpetrator of the assault is in the chain of command.

Paula Coughlin

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Muhammad Iqbal

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

G. Campbell Morgan

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

Robert W. Floyd

But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee.

Francis Quarles

I have to command the offense. I have to command the team. I have to bring a spark and give us a chance to win.

Baker Mayfield

If I had a dog, I'd train him to kill on command. And the command I'd use would be, "Is he friendly?"

Richard M. Weiner

The ideal revolutionary command should effectively direct all planning and implementation. It must not allow the growth of any other rival center of power. There must be one command pooling and directing the subsequent governmental departments, including the armed forces.

Saddam Hussein

"Love one another": No command is simpler; no command more difficult.

Mark Hart

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

William Penn

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

Bob Nelson

Those who can command themselves command others.

William Hazlitt

Much of command is the ability to take command.

Louis L'Amour

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

James Gilmour

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Robert Hughes

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