Top 100 Commanded Quotes
#1. I would rather have an army of deer commanded by a lion than an army of lions commanded by a deer!" Here
Steven Pressfield
#2. When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
Sally Mann
#3. The man fed every carnal fantasy she possessed. He sat her lustful appetites before an array of the finest of delicacies, ordered them to feast, then commanded, "Don't swallow.
Patricia A. Knight
#4. 23 Yet he commanded the skies above and p opened the doors of heaven, 24 and he q rained down on them manna to eat and gave them r the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate of the bread of s the angels; he sent them food t in
Anonymous
#5. We ought to love temperance for itself, and in obedience to God who has commanded it and chastity; but what I am forced to by catarrhs, or owe to the stone, is neither chastity nor temperance.
Michel De Montaigne
#6. We have not been promised rescue from this world; we have been commanded to go and take back this world. The Great Commission is Jesus' call to storm the gates of hell and to liberate his children, establishing his kingdom.
Richard Stearns
#7. What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests to go into all the world, and to preach the Gospel?
John Wycliffe
#8. God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
Isaac Newton
#9. When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#10. The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.
Ilona Andrews
#11. SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
Ambrose Bierce
#12. But there is a compelling reason to develop a personal strategy for living. Rejecting issues, which often feels liberating, is actually enslavement. Those who do not produce their own solutions must be using someone else's. As Nietzsche warned 'he who cannot obey himself will be commanded'.
Michael Foley
#13. Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.
David Chilton
#14. Sir 3:22 Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not into things above thy ability: but the things that God hath commanded thee, think on them always, and in many of his works be not curious.
Various
#15. Drink," he commanded, seeing the look of hunger, of passion, in the boy's eyes. The intensity of his blood had awoken the predatory fire that lay within all men.
Mark Benjamin
#16. Elizabeth was astounded, and immediately colored.
"Put down those damn crayons and look at me!" Darcy commanded.
William Codpiece Thwackery
#17. Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.
Poemen
#18. The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Michel De Montaigne
#19. God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.
Max Anders
#20. The Bible says that love is a responsibility. We are commanded to love. God doesn't ask us if we feel like it, He tells us in His Word that it is our responsibility to love.
David Jeremiah
#21. A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid down by his enemies.
George R R Martin
#22. Julie McGuire gazed intently from her table in the filled-to-capacity dining room of the Wyndham Hotel. The Love To Murder Mystery Conference had saved the best for last. New York Times bestselling author, Tyler Jensen, now approached the podium. His entire bearing commanded attention, from
Morgan Mandel
#23. I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.
Hatshepsut
#24. My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#25. And when the man who commanded a nuclear arsenal and the greatest military in history was frightened, it meant that something other than human intervention was required. That, unfortunately, was part of Zach's job every day now. That was where Nathaniel Cade came in
Christopher Farnsworth
#26. The child expects to look up to the parent, to be instructed by the parent, indeed to be commanded by the parent. If the parent instead serves the child, then that relationship falls out of its natural balance. You may not earn your child's love at all - and the
Leonard Sax
#27. We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done ... [But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.
Winston Churchill
#28. Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."
Randy Alcorn
#29. Sammi watched him walk toward her.
He walked like a predator, a conqueror. A king who ruled and commanded all. He was sex and sin, decadence and sensuality.
He was, simply put, spectacular.
Donna Grant
#30. Created sick, and then commanded to be well. This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims that eventually lay waste to the illusion of faith.
Christopher Hitchens
#31. Jesus commanded His followers to go into "all the world" - not only into all "the safe places in the world,
Nik Ripken
#32. Stay here! he commanded me, then he raced off after Cal.
I stopped for just a moment. Then I ran after them.
Cate Tiernan
#34. Ask me what else I remember."
She started to run away, but his hand touched her arm.
"Ask me," he commanded.
Emma shook her head feeling both terrified and the most alive she'd felt in years.
He waited patiently until her eyes met his. "I remember us, Emma.
Lauren Layne
#35. Own who you are," he commanded. "And don't apologize. Do you understand? Own it or it
will own you.
Penelope Douglas
#36. Whenever the civil government forbids the practice of things that God has commanded us to do, or tells us to do things He has commanded us not to do, then we are on solid ground in disobeying the government and rebelling against it.
Pat Robertson
#37. Truly, these times of ignorance God overlook, but now he commanded all men everywhere to repent." Acts 17: 30
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. The commandment is that you shall love, but when you understand life and yourself, then it is as if you should not need to be commanded, because to love human beings is still the only thing worth living for; without this life you really do not live.
Soren Kierkegaard
#39. Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us!
Seneca.
#40. He walks out the door making eye contact with me for only a second. It was at that moment that he lured me in. I was captivated by him and, for the first time, I understood his power. Nicholas Jayzon commanded attention when he walked into a room.
Jennifer Loren
#41. She could do things when her body was busy that she could at no other time, things like assemble her worries into ranks, each rank commanded by a hope.
John Crowley
#42. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
John Adams
#43. Yeh don' know what yeh are?" he said finally. Uncle Vernon suddenly found his voice. "Stop!" he commanded. "Stop right there, sir! I forbid you to tell the boy anything!
J.K. Rowling
#44. If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.
William Shakespeare
#45. Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it.
Martin Luther
#46. To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
Viktor E. Frankl
#47. On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.
Matthew Of Edessa
#48. 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
#49. Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
Terence McKenna
#50. God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers ... The gods of the nations are demons.
Justin Martyr
#51. So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.
Hermann Bahr
#52. Eyes on me, baby," he commanded on a harsh breath. "always on me!
Raine Miller
#53. Oh, wearisome condition of humanity,
Born under one law, to another bound;
Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity,
Created sick, commanded to be sound.
Fulke Greville
#54. We are as strictly and solemnly commanded to pray as in the others . . . not to kill, not to steal, etc."165 We must pray whether we feel like it or not.
Timothy J. Keller
#55. Political ideologies, too, cannot be defined in terms of assumptions or values, but only as rival versions of the metaphor that SOCIETY IS A FAMILY. The political right likens society to a family commanded by a strict father, the political left to a family cared for by a nurturant parent.
Steven Pinker
#56. Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor, who had commanded the Roman line against Hannibal at Cannae a century and a half before, must surely have sat bolt upright in his tomb.
Robert Harris
#57. We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
Saint John Chrysostom
#58. Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well. - CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Lawrence M. Krauss
#59. Who really needs to be commanded to love? Anyone who has loved anything in life, be it another person, an animal, a place in nature, a work of art - whatever - knows that love comes by its own power. It cannot and need not be commanded.
John Lamb Lash
#60. Since God commanded me to go, I must do it.
Joan Of Arc
#61. As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.
Lynn Schusterman
#62. What is right or duty without power ? To tell a man it is his duty to submit his judgment to the judgment of the church, is like telling a wife it is her duty to love her husband a thing easy to say, but meaning simply nothing. Affection must be won, not commanded.
James Anthony Froude
#63. I'm not a political Christian; for the most part I allow people even their vain, earthly rights. And I certainly don't see anti-Christians as bad or evil (as if they actually have the power to pose any kind of threat against God Almighty), but rather complete idiots I was commanded to love.
Criss Jami
#64. 2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones, for mine anger is not upon them that rejoice in my highness.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#65. Every believer is commanded to be plugged in to a local church.
David Jeremiah
#66. Let our first care today be the re-establishment of our physical strength, the reconstruction of our national organism, so that in future, where the respect due to us cannot be won by entreaty, it may be commanded, and where it cannot be commanded, it may be enforced.
Emma Lazarus
#67. Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.
Maimonides
#68. Never again!" commanded his will.
"Again! Tomorrow!" begged his heart.
Hermann Hesse
#69. Trust cannot be commanded; and yet it is also correct that the only one who earns trust is the one who is prepared to grant trust.
Gustav Heinemann
#70. Three thousand additional troops from Ireland commanded
Jack Kelly
#71. Move your hands, Morgan," he commanded.
"It hurts!" she protested.
"It's supposed to.
Cara Bristol
#72. Kyle saw them as a double-pronged problem: the ship that would not heed his wishes because of a boy that would not be what his father commanded him to be.
Robin Hobb
#73. Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.
Peter Rachleff
#74. It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
Yasmin
#75. It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)
Nicholas Bella
#76. It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.
Cal Thomas
#77. Although I considered putting my eight years of Boy Scout experience and love for our nation to the test by joining the military, I did not want to put myself in a position where I might be commanded to take the life of another, and quickly ended my flirtation with military service.
Ashton Kutcher
#78. Sleep," he commanded.
"You need to rest after being jumped."
"You could jump me.
Erin Kellison
#79. Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest. Joshua 1:9
Anonymous
#80. Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door.
Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch
" he commanded.
"I'm not a witch, I'm your wife
" she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury
"and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more
William Goldman
#81. TV, a Pioneer in the series they had to stop making because it was too expensive, too good for the price they commanded. Truls had got the last one, bought with money he had earned by burning evidence against a pilot who had been smuggling heroin for Asayev.
Jo Nesbo
#82. Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.
Benjamin Franklin
#83. Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.
Francis Bacon
#84. Modern amorists are sometimes taken aback at the prospect of investing in a relationship with no guarantee of reward. It is precisely that absence, however, that separates gift from shrewdness. Love cannot be extracted, commanded, demanded, or wheedled. It can only be given. (208)
Thomas Lewis
#85. for we are by baptism brought into covenant, that we may be taught to observe all things whatsoever Christ has commanded us,
Matthew Henry
#86. Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Saint Augustine
#87. Jesus commanded his followers to clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and care for the sick. Making health care available to all seems like a no-brainer, Jesus-wise, among the most Christian projects a president, or a nation, could possible undertake.
Dan Savage
#88. Victory will be ours soon, Iraqis will strike the necks as God has commanded you.
Saddam Hussein
#89. Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.
Bill Johnson
#90. [Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.
Billy Graham
#91. Eve commanded her hostage to open the door and look calm. She didn't turn around again, but Beckett knew what she'd done. She'd crossed some line she'd drawn for herself. She'd said his name, kissed him, and saved him.
She'd done what he couldn't do for himself.
Debra Anastasia
#92. You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
Saint Augustine
#93. Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Lee Greenwood
#94. May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our ancestors. May He not abandon us or leave us h 58 so that He causes us to be devoted G to Him, i to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, statutes, and ordinances, which He commanded our ancestors.
Anonymous
#95. Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,
but is commanded because it is beneficial.
Benjamin Franklin
#96. We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.
Frederick Buechner
#97. Part your legs for me,lass," he commanded on a growl."Wide,so I can go deep,drink deep.Fuck your sweet cunt with my tongue."
~Lucian Roman
Laura Wright
#98. The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God's government; He desires only the service of love; and love cannot be commanded; it cannot be won by force or authority. Only by love is love awakened. To know God is to love Him;
Ellen G. White
#99. Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.
Francis Bacon
#100. On the ride home after a long day at school, Livia commanded her eyes to look at the floor of the train and not search for him. But they took direct orders from her heart and combed the platform as the train pulled in.
Debra Anastasia
