#comma

I am encouraged by the news today that United States special operations personnel found, identified and killed the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the operational commander of the al-Qaeda led insurgency in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was the public face of the insurgency. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#al-qaeda #am #commander #encouraged #face

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#command #general #i #i am #keys

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.' ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#commander #ever #going #ground #guys

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#assume #commands #conclusion #defend #dictates

Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves. ↗

— Gary North

#commands #contrary #denying #enforce #first

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

Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#came #captain #city #commander #day

To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #wilderness #love

Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. ↗

— Patrick O'Brian

#aubreyad #master-and-commander #the-far-side-of-the-world #will-warley #men