#commands

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die. ↗

— Mary Antin

#commands #czar #die #except #left

When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma. ↗

— Jack Black

#beatles #commands #creative #fast #kids

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?' ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#bend #body #brain #chasing #commands

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others. ↗

— David Brainerd

#being #better #business #commands #desire

I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child. ↗

— Robert Casey

#am #american #american people #approach #child

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#due #given #itself #neither #nor

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world. ↗

— Georgia Harkness

#dangerous #divine #forces #human #into

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself. ↗

— Jared Leto

#commands #herself #lot #mother #respect

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. ↗