#comma

It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command. ↗

— George Crook

#command #department #eight #hardest #however

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise. ↗

— Colin Powell

#commander #field #otherwise #proved #rear

If anyone has a problem with Blaire then they need to take it up with me. She has a job here as long as she wants one. The three of you may not like it but I personally don’t give a flying fuck. So get over it. She doesn’t need this shit right now. Back off. Are we understood? ↗

— Abbi Glines

#command #attitude

We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments, promises and penalties are much more so. The Bible is not just a guideline. It is the authoritative Word of God. Disobeying it has consequences. Obeying it has rewards. Yet we fudge. We compromise. We rationalize. We trade away our spiritual integrity for man’s approval and as we do, we gradually erode our ability to distinguish right from wrong, to see our own failings, and to turn back in repentance to God. We simply have no idea how this cavalier attitude towards God’s Word taints our witness and hinders the kingdom of God. ↗

— Craig Olson

#commandments #craig-olson #god #scripture #attitude

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. ↗

— John Bolton

#american #because #chain #command #could

Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ↗

— Carolyn Kizer

#commas #death #kizer #poetry #poets

A good relationship is a two-way street, gatita. Submitting and serving is equaled by a master’s need to take control, to protect, to make someone happy. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#erotica #to-command-and-collar #equality

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#proofreading #poem

When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#i #number #out #playing #second

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#commands #higher #more #price #seduction