Quotes of: Commanding Keyword

Rameses: Now speaks the rat that would be my ears. Dathan: Too many ears tie a rat's tongue.

The Ten Commandments

Lilia: Joshua. We must have hope. God will send us the deliverer. Joshua: Hope. On the heels of every hope walks Dathan.

The Ten Commandments

Jethro's daughter: Is it true that Egyptian girls paint their eyes? Moses: Yes, but very few have eyes as beautiful as yours.

The Ten Commandments

Sethi: The man best able to rule Egypt will follow me. I owe that to my fathers, not to my sons.

The Ten Commandments

Moses: There is a beauty beyond the senses, Nefretiri, beauty like the quiet of green valleys and still waters, beauty of the spirit that you cannot understand.

The Ten Commandments

Moses: [to Jethro's daughters, as they were washing his feet] Never did a lost sheep have so many shepherds.

The Ten Commandments

Dathan: [pulling his cart through the parted Red Sea] Pull! Pull for your lives! Lilia: Is your life worth so much?

The Ten Commandments

Obedience brings peace in decision making. If we have firmly made up our minds to follow the commandments, we will not have to redecide which path to take when temptation comes our way.

James E. Faust

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the ...

Cliff Stearns

My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at West Point and Air Command Staff and lectured at the War College.

Suzanne Collins

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

Brendan I. Koerner

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it.

Wally Schirra

Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!

Apocalypse Now

Commander Shears: I'm getting worse, you know. Sometimes I think I'm Admiral Halsey.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Under the fatal lighting of that destiny, its uselessness becomes evident. No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

Alan de Jager

Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and show Myself to him.

Anonymous

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

Antony Sher

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

Arthur Smith

War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.

Mark McKinnon

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Victor Hugo