#comma

Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or to pay attention, stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a big bag of Hershey's Kisses in bed? ↗

— Anne Lamott

#jesus #faith

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican. ↗

— Renee Ellmers

#believe #commandment #i #i believe #i believe in

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ↗

— Alan Watts

#command #feel #love #love is #never

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said. ↗

— Erich Segal

#humour #love

The 'commandment' of love is only possible because it is more than a requirement. Love can be 'commanded' because it has first been given. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#god #love #love

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

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#grammar #stupid #tolerance

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#bread #commandment #country #daily #daily bread

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