#comma

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#command #exchange #gives #his #history

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#because #commander #control #could #danger

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#commandments #had #might #moses #newspaper

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#christianity #dharma #ethics #judaism #niyama

Her remarks caught his consideration and his violet eyes tapered with growing dislike. He was at least dejected in his solitude, and now she had come to ruin his isolation and compel him to speak when he would otherwise be enjoying silence. He pressed his immense body against the bars of the cell in hopes of intimidating her, but the captain remained complacent and unaffected by his display. “Leave me, woman,” he bellowed at her. “I fear a cannot do that just now. I might need your help, should you wish to give it.” He groaned and turned aside. “I will not assist you.” “It is rather a shame you won’t. I was going to offer you your freedom.” The giant turned back and looked at her with hesitation. ↗

— Michelle Franklin

#the-haanta-series #freedom

I run in the path of your commands for you have set my heart free. ~Psalm 119:32 ↗

— Anonymous

#freedom #heart #path #run #set-free

It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so. Now they and all their mates saw him do it again: they saw Joe Plaice's scalp taken off, his skull bared, a disc of bone audibly sawn out, the handle turning solemnly; a three-shilling piece, hammered into a flattened dome by the armourer, screwed on over the hole; and the scalp replaced, neatly sewn up by the parson. It was extremely gratifying - the Captain had been seen to go pale, and Barret Bonden too, the patient's cousin - blood running down Joe's neck regardless - brains clearly to be seen - something not to be missed for a mint of money - instructive, too - and they made the most of it. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #barret-bonden #jack-aubrey #joe-plaice #master-and-commander

I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#certain #commandment #compassionate #god #human

To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose. ↗

— Giulio Douhet

#air #beaten #command #conquer #defeat

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development