#command

Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#conqueror #ever #exterior #i #life

To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#believe #certain #certain things #christian #commanded

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you. ↗

— Dwight Gooden

#command #get #gonna #good #got

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. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#defend #democracy #father #general #happen

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#commit #cultivation #duty #enable #forbid

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#calls #commands #course #i #law

For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#been #category #command #completely #different

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. ↗

— Learned Hand

#democracy #justice #keep #must #ration

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#does #kill #others #people #say

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#command #did #even #inner #last