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Quotes About Forces

Within mummies themselves lies the potential for greatness, be it great evil or great accomplishment, but titanic forces struggle to move them. Entire chronicles may hinge on that one fact.
~ Jim Comer
The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.
~ Jim Walsh
In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we're in a pocket of silence. We're in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.
~ Jo Ann Beard
Kindling the Light Within December is the month in which all the forces of nature are aligned to help us give birth to the Light within.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
The five forces framework explains the industry's average prices and costs, and therefore the average industry profitability you are trying to beat.
~ Joan Magretta
These five forces—the intensity of rivalry among existing competitors, the bargaining power of buyers (the industry's customers), the bargaining power of suppliers, the threat of substitutes, and the threat of new entrants—determine the industry's structure
~ Joan Magretta
The five forces framework zeroes in on the competition you face and gives you the baseline for measuring superior performance. It explains the industry's average prices and costs, and therefore the average industry profitability you are trying to beat. Before you can make sense of your own performance (current and potential), you need insight into the industry's fundamental economics.
~ Joan Magretta
The Universe is testing your resolve. Whenever we make a change, the static forces align and form a barrier.
~ Joanna Campbell Slan
They validate perceptions that need validating, especially in adolescence--ie, under the bland, forced optimism of American life terrible forces are at work, things are not what they seem, and if you feel lonely, persecuted, a misfit, and in terror, you aren't crazy. You're right.
~ Joanna Russ
There are forces in the world that we cannot see, and they are for good as well as for evil. And I sensed, with an inner certainty, that the forces of good were far more powerful than the forces of evil.
~ Ann Rinaldi
We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing their behavior as the result of forces beyond their control.
~ Anna Salter
in that blurred state between awake and asleep when too many intake valves are open in the soul. Like the terrestial crust of the earth which is proportionately 10 times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul is a miracle of mutual pressures. Millions of kilograms of force pounding up from earth's core on the inside to meet the cold air of the world and stop as we do, just in time.
~ Anne Carson
That is why there are forces which you call evil. In this universe there is no evil; all is good that comes to us from I´shvara, but it sometimes comes in the guise of evil that, by opposing it, we may draw out our strength.
~ Annie Besant
The endowment and sunk cost effects live together in a way that amplifies escalation of commitment. Status quo bias adds to the mix of cognitive forces gaffing the scale.
~ Annie Duke
We never want to expand our borders... but I can say that our security forces and defence forces possess all the might to protect our borders.
~ Rajnath Singh
We have an obligation to ensure our service members are protected, our national defense is resilient, and our forces are well-equipped.
~ Mikie Sherrill
At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Man is never beautiful; he is never happy except when he becomes the channel for the distribution of mechanical forces.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Daddy's girl. Was it a 'itty-bitty bravekins and did it suffer? Oooooo-tweet, de tweetest thing, wasn't she dest too tweet? Before her tiny fist the forces of lust and corruption rolled away; nay, the very march of destiny stopped; inevitably became inevitable, syllogism, dialectic, all rationality fell away
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
wisest leaders try to understand history, evaluate the larger forces at work, and determine how much room there is for human action.
~ Fareed Zakaria
There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
~ Auguste Rodin
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
~ Theodore Dreiser
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
~ Nikola Tesla
Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.
~ Anders Fogh Rasmussen