Commanding Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Commanding Quotes from famous persons: Adelbert von Chamisso, Ross Douthat, Loris Karius, Stephanie Ruhle, Trixie Mattel. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Commanding Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.

Adelbert von Chamisso

It is not white nationalism to believe that growing ideological uniformity in the commanding heights of culture makes American politics more polarized.

Ross Douthat

I think it’s important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that’s great. It’s the main base as a goalkeeper.

Loris Karius

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she‘s called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, ‘They’re strong.’

Stephanie Ruhle

Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

Trixie Mattel

I don’t run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

Alfred M. Gray

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Thomas Carlyle

Teaching‘s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Bill Gates

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

Carl Sandburg

Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

Xenophon

The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.

Ambrose Burnside

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time ‘holding space.’ So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

Mahershala Ali

I like a lot of older rock ‘n’ roll artists, like legends like Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. They really influenced me to be very, very androgynous and very commanding, and very very – I wouldn’t say odd, but I would say eccentric.

Princess Nokia

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

John Eisenhower

The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.

Edward McKendree Bounds

What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

Arnold Palmer

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

Barbara Castle

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

Gerd von Rundstedt

With somebody like Harrison Ford, they’re so commanding and confident, and you know, he does have a certain power or charisma, and those are things that are sort of ineffable.

Paul Dano

You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us.

Malcolm Wallop

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Mark Helprin

I would hate to be thrust into the middle of a big film and not deliver. There’s young actors and they’re put into these central roles and they’re commanding armies – but they can’t quite pull it off. I’d much rather do it in small steps and build it from there.

Paddy Considine

I don’t like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

Zoe Saldana

Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions – such as China, Vietnam, and Iran – look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.

Pankaj Mishra

It’s weird but I’ve never really been the type to have fixations on the leading man actor. I’ve always been drawn more to the rock star. I love a guy on the microphone commanding an audience.

Amanda Crew

I like to look strong and commanding.

Zoe Saldana

The idea that, in the age of Google, Facebook and the internet, government can control the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy is one of the great delusions of our age. Modern techonology, social media, the explosion of online retail, among many other things, have meant that governments have less and less control.

Kwasi Kwarteng

The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

Ambrose Burnside

In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.

Chrystia Freeland

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders.

James Stockdale

Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

Richard Dawkins

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

Joanna Coles

The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising.

Ehud Barak

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

John Hunt Morgan

But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

John Strachan

Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.

Ambrose Burnside

As far as being onstage, commanding presence, I’ve always looked up to people like Axl Rose and Freddie Mercury and Paul Stanley – the rock gods. I’ve always wanted to be able to achieve that level of commanding nature onstage and really leading people at a show.

Andy Biersack

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

Paul Ricoeur

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

John Hunt Morgan

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