Forces Quotes

1982 Forces quotes by 1421 unique authors

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating… — Henry A. Kissinger
I do not believe the President requires any additional authorization from the Congress before committing US forces to achieve our objectives in the Gulf. — Dick Cheney
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… — Henry A. Kissinger
And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda… — Barack Obama
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I… — David Guterson
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the… — Israel Nathan Herstein
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged… — Arthur Koestler
The central act of photography, the act of choosing and eliminating, forces a concentration on the picture edge - the line that separates in from… — John Szarkowski
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a… — Dorothea Lange
As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things… — Wynn Bullock
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
What is of value is that a particular photographer sees the subject differently than I do. A good picture must be a completely individual expression… — Alexey Brodovitch
Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war… — Karl A. Menninger
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round… — David Douglass
The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to… — Rene Dubos
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces;… — Claude Bernard
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a… — Jose Mujica
All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence...Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying… — Herman Melville
In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the… — Thomas Huxley
The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its… — John Jay Chapman

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