Command Entire Period

Famous quotes containing the words command, entire and/or period:

    For experience showed her that she had not, by marrying a man of a large fortune, obtained any great proportion of property which she could call her own or command at her pleasure.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    We have a vigilant consul, Caninius, who never slept once during his entire term of office!
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
    Don Delillo (b. 1926)