#forces

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#centuries #combating #death #demon #doom

Venezuelans have a deep democratic conviction. If the government hotheads ventured out to stir violence they would encounter the armed forces. I don't believe the armed forces respond to a political party. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#armed forces #believe #conviction #deep #democratic

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. ↗

— David Sanborn

#bass #because #changes #degree #different

What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#forces #material #nothing #observe #shapes

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#cannot #forces #influence #man #nature

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#forces #got #i #large #ordinary

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#equal #flanks #forces #inevitable #long

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. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#democracy #fight #forces #general #government

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2,000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#ascribed #fifty #forces #given #gods