Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

The government has interpreted the peacefulness of the movement as a weakness: the people's non-violent policies have been taken as a green light for government violence. Refusal to resort to force has been interpreted by the government as an invitat

Anthony Browne

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.

We didn't feel we were in a position to force the utility to do something.

We didn't feel like we could get a whole lot of steals, but we wanted to force the issue and try to make conditioning a factor.

We got Jacobs and Jones out of their game a little bit. We forced them further outside.

Lance Armstrong

Without the illness I would never have been forced to re-evaluate my life and my career. I know if I had not had cancer, I would not have won the Tour de France.

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.

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.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

Courtney Love

I am not a woman. I am a force of nature....

We shouldn't have to prove our innocence ... but nevertheless we've been forced to. We have not one ounce of trust in the Boulder police.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

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.

Tasha Alexander

When you have a child, it forces you to take stock of what you're doing with your life.

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.

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

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.