Countermand Quotes

#1. You ordered an immediate withdrawal, sir. Am I to understand I have the liberty to countermand your orders in combat?

Owen R. O'Neill

#2. Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Frank Herbert

#3. Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

Stephen Fry

#4. They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load,
And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed
So low for long, they never right themselves.

Robert Frost

#5. Old Luce. He was strictly a pain in the ass, but he certainly had a good vocabulary. He had the largest vocabulary of any boy at Whooton when I was there. They gave us a test.

J.D. Salinger

#6. Without your health, everything else means nothing.

Mary J. Blige

#7. One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.

John Kessel

#8. Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

Tim Howard

#9. I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.

Patrick Macnee

#10. I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. No question about that. But when something like Dodd-Frank has been created, sort of in the mystery of night, it is a huge document. It's vast. It weighs about 10 pounds when I carry it around.

Charles Schwab

#11. Waterfront little shanties like this one had

Robyn Carr

#12. Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#13. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms.

Daniel Bell

#14. If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.

Seth Godin

#15. My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sidney Poitier

#16. When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.

Mary Schapiro

#17. She had a warrior's heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman.

George R R Martin