Land Force Command

Famous quotes containing the words land, force and/or command:

    “The land is numb.
    It stands beneath the feet, and one may come
    Walking securely, till the sea extends
    Its limber margin, and precision ends.”
    —Yvor Winters (1900–1968)

    “A petty bureaucrat always watches his superior’s countenance, just as a boatman trims his sails according to the force of the wind.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)