God Commands

Famous quotes containing the words god and/or commands:

    “In olden days a glimpse of stocking
    Was looked on as something shocking
    But now, God knows,
    Anything goes.”
    —Cole Porter (1893–1964)

    “How often we read that the enemy occupied a position which commanded the old, and so the fort was evacuated! Have not the school-house and the printing-press occupied a position which commands such a fort as this?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)