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Quotes About Forces

Our soul is governed by four invisible forces: love, death, power and time.
~ Paulo Coelho
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence.
~ William A. Dembski
Hierarchy often breaks down in the neutral zone, and mixed groupings, such as task forces and project teams, are often very effective. People may have to be given temporary titles or made "acting" managers.
~ William Bridges
broader unseen energy scenario in play
~ William Buhlman
In the end, the Company sued for peace. Haidar was successfully bought off: a treaty was signed and the Mysore forces returned home. But the fact that the Company could
~ William Dalrymple
Today there are a number of forces coming together in a unique way that is resulting in an incredible level of innovation, disruption, and entrepreneurship.
~ William E Ford
The way earlier societies seem obviously absurd and cruel gives a kind of horror at the forces that must be at work in our own, but suggests that any society must have dramatically satisfying and dangerous conventions; and people can put up with almost any political conditions, either because they are lazy or because they are ambitious.
~ William Empson
Shall I tell you what this collision [of free and slave labor] means?… It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation.
~ William Henry Seward
Life], electricity or fire. They are, all three, of the outer forces -- monsters of the void. Nothing we can do will create any one of them, our power is merely to be able, by providing the conditions, to make each one of them manifest to our physical senses. . . .
~ William Hope Hodgson
While religious and financial manias might seem to have little in common, the underlying forces that give them rise are identical: the desire to improve one's well-being in this life or the next. And the factors that amplify the contagion of financial and religious mass delusions are also similar: the hardwired human propensity to imitate, to fabricate and consume compelling narratives, and to seek status.
~ William J. Bernstein
I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
~ William James
life is far more interesting than it needs to be, because the forces that guide it are not merely practical.
~ David Byrne
Leur cohabitation devenait un théâtre de deux forces antagoniques: une attirance progressive brimée par une distance toujours respectée.
~ David Foenkinos
The Iron Law of Liberalism states that any market reform, any government initiative intended to reduce red tape and promote market forces will have the ultimate effect of increasing the total number of regulations, the total amount of paperwork, and the total number of bureaucrats the government employs.
~ David Graeber
Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if these historical impulses were more a part of them than they knew.
~ David Halberstam
una estrella se mantiene con vida gracias a dos fuerzas contrapuestas: por un lado, la de las explosiones nucleares internas, que tienden a expandirla y, por otro, la de la gravedad, que la mantiene unida en su conjunto.
~ David Lagercrantz
isolated near Iukhnov, and Kluge and his army commanders shifted their few mobile forces to meet new threats.
~ David M. Glantz
I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.
~ Douglas MacArthur
This universe is formed out of both consciousness forces and matter. While the study of matter has been the domain of traditional science, the study of consciousness is the science of spirituality.
~ Shriram Sharma
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
~ Maimonides
God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Everytime we say that god is the author of some phenomenon, that signifies that we are ignorant of how such a phenomenon was caused by the forces of nature.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.
~ Jared Diamond
In recent years... forces have developed in our government over which we have no control, and these forces have an authoritarian approach to justice - meaning, they tell you what justice is.
~ Jim Garrison