Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

But our founders were not pacifists. They knew there would be times when force must be met by force.

Christine Quinn

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Douglas Hurd

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

When you get stats from the game, I didn't think it was them forcing turnovers, because we forced some, too, but we didn't convert. You can't do that here.

Ellen Galinsky

When you feel pressured and pushed, when you feel not respected, when you feel tension at work, when you feel the work that you do isn't of real value, that leads to overwork. Sizable portions of the U.S. work forces have these feelings.

David Levithan

Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.

This tax reform can't make it without the support of the task force leadership ? and it doesn't have it.

This was a team that we were playing that has really improved as the season has gone on. They return a number of guys. They're going to be a force to be reckoned with in the very near future.

We got after them with full-court pressure and forced a lot of turnovers early.

The (rebel) New Forces go with the recommendations of the (UN-mandated) international working group. There is no other way.

There has to be a refiguring and recalibration of the role of the security forces and a clarification of what the U.N. role should be.

Peter Pace

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle, ... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

There has been no forceful condemnation by the United States as everyone expected.

When (Bloomfield) started going up and down the floor, we were forced to press and it opened the game up for them. Yesterday we had about 20 guys in practice yelling, ?Back,? whenever a shot went up.

We knew their post players weren't very strong. I guess our guards knew that, so they wanted to force it to the inside.

We thought (Scottsbluff) was getting used to the zone and we thought we could pressure their guards into turning it over a little bit. We forced them to take some poor shots in the third quarter. That gave us an opportunity to get up the floor.

We're not mourning a loss. We're celebrating a victory: his victory in life over forces that would hurt his people, his victory in terms of letting us know that love is more powerful than hate.

Fiona Apple

I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.

I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

Theodor Herzl

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

Bob Shacochis

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

Rick Hoffman

The real, raw, driven-to-tears type scenes have always scared me since I was very young working as an actor. And to this very day, I get tremendously neurotic making sure nothing is forced or fake.

Jalal Talabani

Those who think terrorism in Iraq is the result of the presence of multinational forces are wrong,

Michael Mann

We don't want to be forced to have a second reform.

We have been forced to start the operation to lower the pressure in Ukraine's gas pipeline system.

We have been forced to reduce our production workforce by several thousand people.

Gary Johnson

We put their keeper under a lot of pressure and he was forced to concede several corners,

We would have hurricane-force winds, we would have flooding, heavy rain and tornados as an offshoot.

Tim Griffin

We found that waddling didn't actually require increased work. Instead, walking is costly for penguins because they have such short limbs, which requires their legs to generate muscular force very rapidly.

Though not all people leaving the work force leave the area, a persistent reduction in the labor force may indicate an outward migration of skilled labor.

Seymour Cassel

With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.

What we are hoping for is for somebody to step up and force us to move them up to No. 1 and start winning at No. 1.

Ernest Cline

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.