Commandest Quotes

#1. Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine

#2. Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Idina Menzel

#4. It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Henry MacKenzie

#5. It was all a matter of control. And Choice.
Nothing more, nothing less

Paulo Coelho

#6. I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'

Kate Christensen

#7. A flock of seagulls rise and swoop above the black profile of the moor, and they are so luminous, so fragile, it would be easy to mistake them for shreds of paper.

Rachel Joyce

#8. [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.

Nicolas Chamfort