Quotes 281 till 300 of 310.
-
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
-
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
-
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
-
When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
-
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
-
Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
-
Wherever men think clearly, and are thoroughly interested, they express themselves with perspicuity and force.
-
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Source: Paradise lost (1667) -
Will is the dynamic soul-force.
-
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
-
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
-
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
-
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
-
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
-
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
-
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
-
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
All blunt-force famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 15)
