Force Quotes - Page 5

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

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• Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Littles, Tomorrow, March

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• My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

  Jennifer Garner

  Eye, Sister In Law, Blue

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• Only air power can defeat air power. The actual elimination or even stalemating of an attacking air force can be achieved only by a superior air force.

  Alexander P. de Seversky

  Air, Aviation, Defeat

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• Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

  Charles L. Allen

  Looks, Way, Sometimes

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• A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Air, Aviation, Modern

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• Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Literature, Littles, Helping

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• Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Air, Independence

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Military, War, Enemy

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• We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Positive Thinking, Purpose, Used

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• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

  Aaron Klug

  Powerful, Struggle, Secret

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• I used to think feminism was a liberating force - now I see many of those people are just censors under a different name.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

  Olara Otunnu

  Children, Hate, War

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• Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for twelve years. Is this deadly routine really necessary? And if so, for what? Don't hide behind reading, writing, and arithmetic as a rationale, because 2 million happy homeschoolers have surely put that banal justification to rest.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving, Thinking, Long

  Twitter post from Apr 16, 2014

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• When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Liars, Lying, People

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, Karloff, myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them.

  Lon Chaney, Jr.

  Sympathy, Father, Character

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• Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

  George Washington

  Freedom, War, Fire

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• Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

  Henry Miller

  Fate, Needs, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.

  Basil King

  Inspirational, Courage, Live Life

  "The Conquest of Fear". Book by Basil King, Chapter I : Fear And The Life-Principle, § XI, p. 29, 1921.

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• Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance.

  Laozi

  Conquer The World, Resistance, Causes

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength.

  Laozi

  Strength, Self Confidence, Knowing

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Block, Yoga

  "The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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