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• To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Queens, Real, Mean

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• I'm not fretting over control with you. You can have all of the command you desire as long as we're together. I'll just save my demands for the bedroom." I flushed. Bones just chuckled and brought my hand to his lips.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hands, Long, Desire

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Mom, Mother, Children

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

  Scott Lynch

  Men, Wind, Rooms

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.173, Del Rey

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• Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

  Gregory Maguire

  Children, Parent, Generations

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• And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Moving, Opposites, Black

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Firsts, Sides

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1911). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that weren’t his own, but those of men under his command.

  Tessa Dare

  Dark, Night, Men

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• No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

  Albert Camus

  Effort, Code Of Ethics, Faces

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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• Don't tell me about worth," Nita said. "My father commands fleets." "The wealthy measure everything with the weight of their money." Tool leaned close. "Sadna once risked herself and the rest of her crew to help me escape from an oil fire... Your father commands fleets. And thousands of half-men, I am sure. But would he risk himself to save a single one?

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Father, Men, Fire

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• I don't like seeing you cry. You will stop." I'll give you a promise," he said gruffly. "And then you will cease your worrying." You will have confidence in my ability to protect you," he ordered. You will have faith in me. I command it.

  Julie Garwood

  Giving, Worry, Promise

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• The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it.

  Saint Augustine

  Moving, Hands, Order

  Saint Augustine (1998). “The Confessions”, p.148, OUP Oxford

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• Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command.

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Mountain

  William Shakespeare (2007). “The Tempest (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.38, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol' Frankie's brows quirked. "You wield sarcasm, madam, as well as a master swordsman does." "Gee, thanks." I smiled at him and batted my lashes. Quit flirting . Patrick flicked the command into my head. He sounded half-annoyed, half-amused. I'm not flirting. Quit being cute and likeable. An impossible request. I've always been too adorable for words.

  Michele Bardsley

  Cute, Sarcasm, Flirting

  Michele Bardsley (2006). “I'm the Vampire, That's Why”, p.107, Penguin

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• The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hero, Promise, Pathways

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• Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

  Robert Walser

  Beautiful, Lying, Book

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• Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sorry, Silly, Fall

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.303, Penguin

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• She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

  Jane Austen

  Desire

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.51, Wordsworth Editions

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• In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Names

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.796, Bantam

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• But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly as he spoke to them. It was not as though they first recognized him as the Christ and then received his command. They believed his word and command and recognized him as the Christ--in that order.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Order, Decision

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• We communicated with pithy, rather monosyllabic thoughts: viz. Run, Jump, Where? Left, Up, Duck, ect. (This latter was an observation I made on the edge of a lake. Nathaniel unfortunately took it as a command, which resulted in our temporary immersion.) We didn't ever quite say Ug, but it was a close-run thing.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Running, Lakes, Ducks

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• He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Wise, Time, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2010). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.401, Lulu.com

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• Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the girls and have Mikken melt down his sword for horseshoes. - Jon Snow

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Night, Snow

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.187, Bantam

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• God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

  Hugh Nibley

  Responsibility, Men, Views

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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