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Quotes About Forces

People have every kind of excuse for the bad state of their lives, but the truth of the matter is that a soul is put into a situation that provides the ideal conditions for it to do its job, whatever that may be. When we take full responsibility for ourselves, we become aligned with cosmic forces that are intent on helping us grow.
~ Karen Berg
After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind.
~ Fritz Leiber
Man, free thinker! Do you imagine you alone think in this world where life is blazing forth in all things? You are free to avail yourself of the forces you command, but the universe has gone missing from your prescriptions.
~ Gerard de Nerval
It's crazy," she said. "What is?" The connections, she thought. Or the lack of them. The discontinuity. How it was impossible to understand how a person got from point a to point b, even if you were that person and you had been there for every, every step. How there were unseen and mysterious forces beyond yourself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Each sorcerer has his own connections with the forces of wyrd. In the execution of the shapes subtleties, allusions and personal secrets are revealed. Once you have mastered the copying skill, you will develop your own style and in time your knife will
~ Brian Bates
But Achish, Lord of Gath, had no intention of allowing such an Israelite celebration. He had no intention of submitting to the rules of war. He immediately turned to the commanders near him and barked, "Quickly, lead your forces and flee back to Gath before the Israelites can catch us!
~ Brian Godawa
before the huge bronze altar, called a "high place," that was situated just outside the city. High places were elevated platforms and altars devoted to the worship of the gods. Molech worship included veneration of the dead, which would be invoked to protect their forces against the living.
~ Brian Godawa
The forces of chaos, I had learned, were only *enemy forces if you attempted to resist them. The moment you accepted the idea that your life could, and probably would, veer off in an implausible new direction at any given moment, those forces started working *for you. Because if anything was possible...well, then *anything was possible.
~ Bruno Maddox
revolutionary suicide does not mean that i and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. we have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible. when reactionary forces crush us, we must move against these forces, even at the risk of death.
~ Huey Newton
Appeals to imagined forces and phenomena have been the basis for all the cosmological models proposed to avoid the big bang implications about God. The disproof of these models and the ongoing appeal by nontheists to more and more bizarre unknowns and unknowables seem to reflect the growing strength of the case for theism.
~ Hugh Ross
forces in Batjan on June 11.61
~ Ian W. Toll
Shortly before nine, Edwards returned to the air. In a quavering voice he pleaded with his listeners to believe him: "This is no maneuver. Japanese forces are attacking the island. This is the real McCoy!
~ Ian W. Toll
Rear Admiral J. S. McCain, an officer who had earned his wings at age fifty-one, was named commander of air forces in the South Pacific.
~ Ian W. Toll
To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent.
~ Hugh Hefner
Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been so for pop culture: feverish bubbles, silly novelty acts and disconcerting new forces impose themselves on a reluctant and condescending media.
~ Michael Wolff
We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.
~ Sherrod Brown
In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Similarly, establishing a firm timeline for bringing our troops home could accelerate the development of Iraqi security forces and deepen their commitment to defending their own country and their own government.
~ Peter DeFazio
Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.
~ Mike Fitzpatrick
The Obama presidency has seen the U.S. military's elite tactical forces increasingly used in an attempt to achieve strategic goals. But with Special Operations missions kept under tight wraps, Americans have little understanding of where their troops are deployed, what exactly they are doing, or what the consequences might be down the road.
~ Nick Turse
Every country where the the United States maintains troops has a status of forces agreement.
~ Richard Engel
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
~ Leon Battista Alberti
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
The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first episode of globalization - was made possible, in large part, by military might rather than market forces.
~ Ha-Joon Chang