Commandest Quotes & Sayings

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums. — Doreen Cronin

Da quod iubes et iube quod vis
Give what thou commandest and command what thou wilt — Augustine Of Hippo

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail. — Angela Carter

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people. — Milton Friedman

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment. — Henry A. Kissinger

The BAFTA is both absolutely fantastic and sort of meaningless at the same time. — Kenneth Branagh

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God's ever flowing grace. — Mata Amritanandamayi

If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work. — Steve Yegge

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Our own statistics about violence, depression, drug abuse, divorce, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies. Why would we want others to emulate us? — John Perkins

I've had ups in my life, and I've had downs, but I've learned not to cry over spilled milk. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I think I like a challenge. I try to find projects that will push me in a new way and help me grow. — Nick Jonas

But in the secret's courts of man's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed. — Harper Lee

You will live when you live. No one else can ever live your life and no one else will ever know what you know ... — Timothy Findley

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. — Saint Augustine