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Quotes About Forces

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.
~ Frank Knight
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
~ David Sarnoff
We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.
~ Benigno Aquino III
When you have a script where we say we are just going to do air operations alone within the territory of Iraq, what happens is the forces then that we want to target will move their forces, colocate with hospitals, schools, embed themselves to be very, very difficult to conduct air operations against.
~ Ryan Zinke
We are in a struggle against the forces of radical Islam and terror, which must be defeated for our children and our grandchildren.
~ Michael McCaul
The fight against terrorism is an international struggle of the free world against the forces of darkness.
~ Ariel Sharon
And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
~ Katherine Dunn
Fomenting an ongoing political crisis is actually one of ISIS's objectives; it distracts policymakers' attention from terrorists inside Iraq; and it draws critical Iraqi security forces and law enforcement away from the front lines of the battle against ISIS.
~ Will Hurd
On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.
~ Joe Slovo
The enemy becomes not only a ready scapegoat for all ordinary dislikes and frustrations; he becomes the symbol of total evil against which the forces of good may mobilize themselves into a militant community.
~ Robert Nisbet
The electrical forces turned the key that unlocked the repressed genes.
~ Robert O. Becker
The genius of the European project, expressed first in the ECSC and subsequently in the EEC, was that it harnessed cross-border integration to the pursuit of national self-interest, rather than setting these forces against one another.
~ Robert Saunders
The god of woods and flocks, Faunus deifies the forces of nature which the peasant both fears and entreats. So in this instance he was propitiated on the fringes of the city and civilised life
~ Robert Turcan
Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver
~ Robert Wright
The practice of prayer and fasting was paramount to club membership. This one ingredient may have been the critical characteristic that caused the Wesleys, along with Whitefield and others, to emerge as such powerful forces for Christ.
~ Roberts Liardon
Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.
~ Robin Hobb
There are powerful forces of destruction loose in the world, advancing inexorably toward her children and mine. The onslaught of progress, well-intentioned to improve human habitat, threatens the nest I've chosen for my children as surely as I threatened hers.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
the dual powers of destruction and creation that shape the world
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
All the while we know that the true beginnings of an event lie half hidden in earlier movements, so that the visible starting point is in fact a culmination of forces which pre-dated its appearance.
~ Rosemary Ashton
It [this book] aims to confront the violence implicit in U.S. society from the moment of its conception, and the various narratives and forces that have taken shape to deny the consequences of that violence by popularizing and commercializing it.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The more conscious I become that I am born out of the universe, the more deeply I feel the responsibility to develop in myself the forces given to me by a whole universe, the better human being I can become.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Construction work was the art of making the city become aware of itself as a fragile organism at the mercy of forces against which there was no appeal.
~ Salman Rushdie