Quotes with gale-force

Quotes 261 till 280 of 303.

  • Ursula K. Le Guin To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Campbell Brown Trump doesn't force the networks to show his rallies live rather than do real reporting. Nor does he force anyone to accept his phone calls rather than demand that he do a face-to-face interview that would be a greater risk for him.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ramsay Clark Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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  • Bill Bixby TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
    Bill Bixby
    American actor, director and producer (1934 - 1993)
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  • Arthur Keith Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Albert J. Nock Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Leo Buscaglia We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • James Baldwin We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ray Bradbury We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Barbara Deming We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Barney Ross We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Laurence Sterne We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Igor Stravinsky What force is more potent than love?
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Brendan Myers 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.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Henry Miller Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Agnes Smedley When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Leon Trotsky 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.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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