#command

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#choice #command #exercise #fruit #his

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#command #deadline #decisions #definition #final

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

Those who can command themselves command others. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#others #themselves #those #who

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

— Seamus Heaney

#command #did #even #inner #last

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

#developed #faculties #faculty #genius #highly

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people. CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't. ↗

— Brit Hume

#attractive #attractive people #cnn #commands #could

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

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