Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vikram Seth

After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

We recommend an influenza task force in each country, consisting of different ministries. This process should be done now.

There is in life the tragedy of ignorance and selfishness. They force man to take the wrong road; and suffer calamity.

The question is whether Sun can train its sales force to sell these things. Sun periodically wants to get into and not get into software.

The question is, what is the work force ready to do.

The question is how they were removed, ... Was the force necessary, unnecessary or were the men injured on accident? That's what we don't know, and we've been getting conflicting stories from witnesses.

We just didn't make enough plays. We didn't force enough turnovers.

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

Paul Fleischman

People don't like to be nagged. When people nag us, we instantly resist, but when the facts force us in that same direction, we instantly adapt.

Richie Sambora

I've had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.

We were going with a triangle-and-two and a diamond-and-one. It's like pick-your-poison with them. We wanted to force the other kids to knock down shots and they did. We left people wide open.

Jeff Fisher

We'll see how it goes. His health really wasn't a factor. The other side of that is had he been struggling and ailing with something and a question before the game, we would've been forced to have a third quarterback.

Adam Smith

Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Hosni Mubarak

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

We are not to be regarded as a potent political force to be used by politicians in the furtherance of their vested interests. As mandated, we must remain apolitical.

We forced them into taking some penalties and took them out of the game by distracting them.

We forced probably 20-25 turnovers, so we were playing good defense. We didn't give them many shots.

We forced a shot with 23 seconds left and they got the rebound and we had to foul and they made two more foul shots.

Mary McCarthy

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

We had two meetings here (with Louisiana missing people hotline officials) about forwarding Mississippi information to us. That didn't happen. They sat on this information. We had our missing person task force up and going and we were getting a lot of stuff done. We were able to track a lot of people down.

We have to play great. We have to force mistakes.

We're not as quick a team as we've been in the past. So I wanted to get a lot of guys in there to force our tempo.

Lindy Ruff

With the style they play and the goaltender they got it's a very low-chance affair. The mistakes teams make they capitalize, and we gave them the lead right off the start. That let them play their style, and we didn't force them out of it.

Mario Andretti

You see people in the left lane, and as long as they are on the speed limit, they stay there. Get in the right lane and let people pass you - let the police worry about somebody who wants to speed. Don't force them pass in the right lane and zig zag, which can create an accident, just because you think you're correct.

Confucius

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.

Betty Williams

We have 2,290 more people in the work force this March than we did a year ago.

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.

There are many forces and interests out there, outside the schools, and while some are altruistic, others have narrower, more individual interests in mind.

Barry Ritholtz

Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

Marianne Williamson

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.

We only have three games left and we would like to win them all of course. The girls are hoping to make it to play the undefeated Montpelier and force their first loss. We will play them next week.

We picked it up defensively, and that made us get it going offensively, too. Their 3-2 zone gave us some problems in the first quarter and part of the second, but we settled down and were able to start to penetrate. We stopped trying to force everything.

David Levithan

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