Quotes with forces

  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
  • Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
  • The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
  • Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
  • Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
  • This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
  • There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
  • First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
  • If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Dorothea Brande Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Abdul Kalam Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Carl Rowan (President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as commander-in-chief, to use military forces to keep himself in power.
    October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Bruce Jackson All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Albert Einstein All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Barbara Lee As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Basil King Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.
    Basil King
    Canadian preacher and novelist (1859 - 1928)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Bertrand Russell Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Boris Johnson Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
    A wise guy playing the fool to win, Sunday Times, 16 July 2000, p. 17.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Don't fight forces, use them.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Oscar Wilde Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Sugarman Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure.
    Joseph Sugarman
     
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Henry Miller Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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