Quotes with forces

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  • Bobby Hull 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.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Albert Camus For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bridget Riley For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
    Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Einstein Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anne Rice I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alva Myrdal I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Bill Clinton I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Jim Morrison I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important times.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • William S. Burroughs I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done!
    Said to his troops in North Africa, promising the swift defeat of Rommel
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Steven Spielberg I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
    Steven Spielberg
    American director, producer, and screenwriter (1946 - )
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  • Bob Ainsworth 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.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Adnan Pachachi If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Al Franken If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold In 2012, the Supreme Court upheld President Obama's overreaching mandate that forces every American to purchase health insurance or face a fine.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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