Second In Command Quotes

#1. He is appointed Lieutenant Colonel, second-in-command of the Twentieth Maine Regiment of Volunteers.

Jeff Shaara

#2. At twenty-three, Hollman was young, single, and willing to give up any semblance of having a life in favor of working at SpaceX nonstop, and he became Mueller's second in command.

Ashlee Vance

#3. If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are so organized. Our cell has a Chief called General Abacha and he has a second in command. Once you come in, you have to give them some money. If you don't, you're in trouble.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. Did you see the way she ran out of here? Like I had the plague or something."
"Who? The witch?"
"Aye."
"And this bothers you because ... "
"Well ... it's rude."
"Uh huh."
Brastias growled at his second in command. "Shut up.

G.A. Aiken

#5. The huddle included Slim, Tack, Delgado and a local private investigator, Hank Nightingale's brother, Lee Nightingale and Lee's second in command, Luke Stark.

Kristen Ashley

#6. How many times," continued Lindsay Noseworth, second-in-command here and known for his impatience with all manifestations of the slack, "have you been warned, Suckling, against informality of speech?

Thomas Pynchon

#7. When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.

Majel Barrett

#8. We were getting ready to cross into another pack's territory, and my second-in-command was making spirit fingers.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#9. Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#10. I'm a writer first and an editor second ... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Lynn Abbey

#11. This was the second time James had told her to stay still and she had ignored his command.

Wesley Chu

#12. As the demands of the positions differed, and as I grew in age and experience, I found that I had changed as a leader. I learned to ask myself two questions: First, what must the organization I command do and be? And second, how can I best command to achieve that?

Stanley McChrystal

#13. He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.

Wally Schirra

#14. The duties of an officer are the safety, honor, and welfare of your country first; the honor, welfare, and comfort of the men in your command second; and the officer s own ease, comfort, and safety last.

George S. Patton

#15. Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

G. Campbell Morgan

#16. A sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis

Tom Robbins

#17. If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Nikki Giovanni

#18. More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carol Vorderman