Top 169 Commanding Quotes & Sayings

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they're so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.

There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

I like to look strong and commanding.

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Demand candor from commanding officers, and weigh heavily their recommendations.

I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

There is no clear, commanding body of evidence that students' sustained use of multimedia machines, the Internet, word processing, spreadsheets and other popular applications has any impact on academic achievement.'

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it to the earnestness of others.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

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

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

I was on an army show, and in the army - especially in Korean culture - there's a very, very strict hierarchy. Obviously, you would not talk informally or disrespectfully to your commanding officer. But me, in my limited Korean, I basically told my commanding officer, 'Thou shalt forget!' The Korean public thought it was really funny.

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

Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

Creation isn't forcing or commanding something into existence. It's more of a rolling over, a good stretch, blissing out, lying on the grass watching the flowers blowing in the breeze or the clouds floating by.

It is absolutely bedrock to the British Army's philosophy that a commanding officer is responsible for what goes on within his command.

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

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

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.

A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody.

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

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

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.

But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position

Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.

It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

Procrastination can be driven from your personality through the simple technique of constantly commanding yourself to get into action . . . and then obeying that command immediately.

When wild the head-wind beat, Thy sovereign Will commanding Bring them who dare to fly To a safe landing.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it

As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I've always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley - the rock gods. I've always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.

He [Tim Matheson] is such a - he's not like [Ronald] Reagan - but he's so commanding of respect but he's also so sweet.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.