Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

The fact is, Kim pitched without a fastball or command of it. That's usually a recipe for disaster in this park.

We sent six satellite phones to Louisiana with our troops, but the phones are back now, ... We also sent a unified command suite with communications equipment, and that vehicle is still there.

Joseph Addison

Tis not in mortals to command success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll deserve it

We did the things today we need to do to win. Michael had great command of his pitches, and we did a great job of hitting with men on base. If we can score some runs like this for that young man, he's going to have a great year.

Zell Miller

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

James Fallows

When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.

Today she just took command out there. The kids wanted it and Stacey did a great job and my hat goes off to (Marian), they did a great job too.

E. B. White

Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.

Our findings reveal a picture of military discipline from which the doctrine of command responsibility is completely absent.

Antonin Scalia

Such commands are fundamentally incompatible with our constitutional system of dual sovereignty.

That command just created an internal skeleton for this object.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.

Jeff has paid his dues to the company. I expect him to be good, I mean real good. He can be a guy who can do it all, there is no doubt in my mind. The Jeff Rowe I am expecting this season is going to be a difference-maker. He has to take command of this thing. If things aren't going right, he doesn't have to fix everything, he just has to put us in position to make things go right.

I think David's ready to take his game to the next level. He has a better command of the offense. He's got a sense of urgency. He expects to win.

Carlos Silva

I seemed to have command of every pitch. I'm feeling better.

I said, 'Yes, you do.' But he says, 'What will the devil do to me?' I said to him, 'You command the devil to go if he's there. In the name of the church, as archbishop, I command you to go and do it.'

It has always been a contentious issue. Americans don't like to be under command of other nations.

Lawlessness, already endemic, is worsening amid uncertainties concerning command and control of the security forces within the new dispensation and signs of a struggle between the presidency and the new government.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing

Law is commands joined to threats of punishment

Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are fools.

rejects of the old ways of command and control from above.

Plutarch

Paulus Aemilius, on taking command of the forces in Macedonia, and finding them talkative and impertinently busy, as though they were all commanders, issued out his orders that they should have only ready hands and keen swords, and leave the rest to

Our mantra is good pitching and good defense, so that was kind of a typical game for us. For (Peacock) to be able to command three pitches like that was very impressive.

Michael Brown

I am having a horrible time. I can't get a unified command established.

I am ready for any eventuality. As a disciplined soldier of the party, I have no hesitation to quit if the party high command desires. It is for the party president (Sonia Gandhi) to decide.

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

I am very proud to be taking command of a Type 23 frigate, which is an extremely flexible warship, and I'm looking forward to taking HMS Portland on operations with a professional and focused team.

Hoffman pitched very well. He was in trouble in only the one inning they scored. He was pretty much in command in every inning other than that.

Mike Rucker

He's going to command the double-team, ... and if you single him up, he's going to make you pay.

Under command and control, these different radio systems can interoperate with one another.

Aaron Heilman

I threw all my pitches that were ready today. The split's always the last pitch to come around for me. My fastball command was good, and that's key for me.