The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overal...
Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.
So I suggest you stick close, pay attention, and avoid breaking the Terrorverse's only commandment: Thou shall not be stupid.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.
I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.
He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.
The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in his pockets.
Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.
If you do not take opportunity to advance and reward the deserving, your subordinates will not carry out your commands, and disaster will ensue.
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words.
